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A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt	A
The REVEREND BERNARD POWLES	B
And in his church there weekly knelt	A
At least a hundred souls	C
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There little ELLEN you might see	D
The modest rustic belle	E
In maidenly simplicity	D
She loved her BERNARD well	E
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Though ELLEN wore a plain silk gown	F
Untrimmed with lace or fur	G
Yet not a husband in the town	F
But wished his wife like her	G
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Though sterner memories might fade	H
You never could forget	I
The child form of that baby maid	H
The Village Violet	J
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A simple frightened loveliness	D
Whose sacred spirit part	K
Shrank timidly from worldly stress	D
And nestled in your heart	K
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POWLES woo'd with every well worn plan	L
And all the usual wiles	D
With which a well schooled gentleman	M
A simple heart beguiles	D
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The hackneyed compliments that bore	N
World folks like you and me	D
Appeared to her as if they wore	N
The crown of Poesy	D
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His winking eyelid sang a song	O
Her heart could understand	P
Eternity seemed scarce too long	O
When BERNARD squeezed her hand	P
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He ordered down the martial crew	Q
Of GODFREY'S Grenadiers	D
And COOTE conspired with TINNEY to	Q
Ecstaticise her ears	D
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Beneath her window veiled from eye	R
They nightly took their stand	P
On birthdays supplemented by	R
The Covent Garden band	P
	-
And little ELLEN all alone	S
Enraptured sat above	T
And thought how blest she was to own	S
The wealth of POWLES'S love	T
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I often often wonder what	U
Poor ELLEN saw in him	V
For calculated he was NOT	W
To please a woman's whim	V
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He wasn't good despite the air	X
An M B waistcoat gives	D
Indeed his dearest friends declare	X
No greater humbug lives	D
	-
No kind of virtue decked this priest	Y
He'd nothing to allure	Z
He wasn't handsome in the least	Y
He wasn't even poor	A2
	-
No he was cursed with acres fat	B2
A Christian's direst ban	L
And gold yet notwithstanding that	B2
Poor ELLEN loved the man	L
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As unlike BERNARD as could be	D
Was poor old AARON WOOD	C2
Disgraceful BERNARD'S curate he	D
He was extremely good	C2
	-
A BAYARD in his moral pluck	D2
Without reproach or fear	E2
A quiet venerable duck	D2
With fifty pounds a year	E2
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No fault had he no fad except	F2
A tendency to strum	G2
In mode at which you would have wept	F2
A dull harmonium	G2
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He had no gold with which to hire	G
The minstrels who could best	H2
Convey a notion of the fire	G
That raged within his breast	H2
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And so when COOTE and TINNEY'S Own	S
Had tootled all they knew	Q
And when the Guards completely blown	S
Exhaustedly withdrew	Q
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And NELL began to sleepy feel	I2
Poor AARON then would come	G2
And underneath her window wheel	I2
His plain harmonium	G2
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He woke her every morn at two	Q
And having gained her ear	J2
In vivid colours AARON drew	Q
The sluggard's grim career	E2
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He warbled Apiarian praise	D
And taught her in his chant	K2
To shun the dog's pugnacious ways	D
And imitate the ant	K2
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Still NELL seemed not how much he played	H
To love him out and out	L2
Although the admirable maid	H
Respected him no doubt	L2
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She told him of her early vow	M2
And said as BERNARD'S wife	N2
It might be hers to show him how	M2
To rectify his life	N2
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quot You are so pure so kind so true	Q
Your goodness shines so bright	O2
What use would ELLEN be to you	Q
Believe me you're all right quot	O2
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She wished him happiness and health	P2
And flew on lightning wings	D
To BERNARD with his dangerous wealth	P2
And all the woes it brings	D

William Schwenck Gilbert

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