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May it please your Holiness	A
There are possibly two	B
Or it may be three	C
Men	D
In Europe	E
Who could indite this Ode	F
Without treading on anybody's corns	G
After mature reflection	H
I am inclined to think that I am those three men	D
So that you will understand	I
Well my dear Pope I hear on all hands	J
That you are engaged at the present moment	K
In the cheerful act and process	L
Of having a Jubilee	C
I have had several myself	M
And I know what pleasant little functions they are	N
Especially when the King	O
Sends a mission to congratulate one on them	P
To proceed	Q
You must know my dear Pope	R
That by conviction	H
And in my own delightful country	C
I am a rabid saw toothed Kensitite Protestant	K
All my ancestors figure gloriously	C
In Foxe's Book of Martyrs	S
And if they don't they ought to	B
Also I never go into Smithfield	T
Without thinking of the far famed fires thereof	U
And thanking my lucky stars	V
That this is Protestant England	W
And that the King defends the Faith	X
But when I get on to the Continent	K
To do my week end in Paris	Y
Or my ten days at lovely Lucerne	Z
Or my walk with Dr Lunn	H
In the footsteps of St Paul	A2
Why then somehow	B2
The bottom falls clean out of my Kensitariousness	Y
And I become a decent mass hearing candle burning Catholic	C2
That is curious but true	B
And may probably be accounted for	D2
By differences of climate	E2
However we can leave that	F2
Here in England my dear Pope	R
We all like you	B
Whether we be Catholics or Protestants or Jews or Gentiles or members of the Playgoers' Club	G2
And we all see you in our minds' eye	H2
Seated benevolently upon your throne	I2
Giving people blessings	Y
Or walking in the Vatican Garden	H
Clothed on with simple white	J2
We all think of you my beloved Pope	R
As a diaphanous and dear old gentleman	H
Whose intentions are the kindest in the world	K2
And yet and yet and yet	L2
The memory of Smithfield	T
So rages in our honest British blood	M2
That in spite of your white garments	Y
And your placid gentle ways	Y
We feel quite sure that you do carry	C
Somewhere about your person	H
A box of matches	Y
And that if certain people had their way	N2
You would soon be lighting such a candle in England	W
That we should want a new Foxe	Y
And a new Book of Martyrs	Y
Of about the size of a pantechnicon	H
Hence it is my dear Pope	R
That we er Englishmen remain Protestant	K
And make the King swear fearful oaths	Y
Against popery and all its works	Y
Although for aught one knows to the contrary	C
He may have Mass said twice daily	C
Behind the curtain as it were	O2
All the same I wish you good wishes	Y
As to this your Jubilee	C
And	W
Nihil obstat	W

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

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