Tout Pour La Tripe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE CFCG CHCI CICH JKJK| If in China or among the natives of India we claimed civil advantages which were connected with religious usages little as we might value those forms in our hearts we should think common decency required us to abstain from treating them with offensive contumely and though unable to consider them sacred we would not sneer at the name of Fot or laugh at the imputed divinity of Visthnou Courier Tuesday Jan | A |
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| Come take my advice never trouble your cranium | B |
| When civil advantages are to be gained | C |
| What god or what goddess may help to obtain you 'em | B |
| Hindoo or Chinese so they're only obtained | C |
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| In this world let me hint in your organ auricular | D |
| All the good things to good hypocrites fall | E |
| And he who in swallowing creeds is particular | D |
| Soon will have nothing to swallow at all | E |
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| Oh place me where Fo or as some call him Fot | C |
| Is the god from whom civil advantages flow | F |
| And you'll find if there's anything snug to be got | C |
| I shall soon be on excellent terms with old Fo | G |
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| Or were I where Vishnu that four handed god | C |
| Is the quadruple giver of pensions and places | H |
| I own I should feel it unchristian and odd | C |
| Not to find myself also in Vishnu's good graces | I |
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| For among all the gods that humanely attend | C |
| To our wants in this planet the gods to my wishes | I |
| Are those that like Vishnu and others descend | C |
| In the form so attractive of loaves and of fishes | H |
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| So take my advice for if even the devil | J |
| Should tempt men again as an idol to try him | K |
| 'Twere best for us Tories even then to be civil | J |
| As nobody doubts we should get something by him | K |
Thomas Moore
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