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I often wonder whether you	A
Think sometimes of that Bishop who	A
From black but balmy Rum ti Foo	A
Last summer twelvemonth came	B
Unto your mind I p'r'aps may bring	C
Remembrance of the man I sing	C
To day by simply mentioning	C
That PETER was his name	B
	-
Remember how that holy man	D
Came with the great Colonial clan	D
To Synod called Pan Anglican	E
And kindly recollect	F
How having crossed the ocean wide	G
To please his flock all means he tried	G
Consistent with a proper pride	G
And manly self respect	F
	-
He only of the reverend pack	H
Who minister to Christians black	H
Brought any useful knowledge back	H
To his Colonial fold	I
In consequence a place I claim	B
For PETER on the scroll of Fame	B
For PETER was that Bishop's name	B
As I've already told	I
	-
He carried Art he often said	J
To places where that timid maid	K
Save by Colonial Bishops' aid	K
Could never hope to roam	L
The Payne cum Lauri feat he taught	M
As he had learnt it for he thought	M
The choicest fruits of Progress ought	M
To bless the Negro's home	L
	-
And he had other work to do	A
For while he tossed upon the Blue	A
The islanders of Rum ti Foo	A
Forgot their kindly friend	N
Their decent clothes they learnt to tear	O
They learnt to say I do not care	O
Though they of course were well aware	O
How folks who say so end	N
	-
Some sailors whom he did not know	P
Had landed there not long ago	P
And taught them Bother also Blow	P
Of wickedness the germs	Q
No need to use a casuist's pen	R
To prove that they were merchantmen	S
No sailor of the Royal N	R
Would use such awful terms	Q
	-
And so when BISHOP PETER came	B
That was the kindly Bishop's name	B
He heard these dreadful oaths with shame	B
And chid their want of dress	T
Except a shell a bangle rare	O
A feather here a feather there	O
The South Pacific Negroes wear	O
Their native nothingness	U
	-
He taught them that a Bishop loathes	U
To listen to disgraceful oaths	U
He gave them all his left off clothes	U
They bent them to his will	V
The Bishop's gift spreads quickly round	W
In PETER'S left off clothes they bound	W
His three and twenty suits they found	W
In fair condition still	V
	-
The Bishop's eyes with water fill	V
Quite overjoyed to find them still	V
Obedient to his sovereign will	V
And said Good Rum ti Foo	A
Half way I'll meet you I declare	O
I'll dress myself in cowries rare	O
And fasten feathers in my hair	O
And dance the 'Cutch chi boo '	-
	-
And to conciliate his See	U
He married PICCADILLILLEE	V
The youngest of his twenty three	U
Tall neither fat nor thin	S
And though the dress he made her don	X
Looks awkwardly a girl upon	X
It was a great improvement on	X
The one he found her in	S
	-
The Bishop in his gay canoe	A
His wife of course went with him too	A
To some adjacent island flew	A
To spend his honeymoon	Y
Some day in sunny Rum ti Foo	A
A little PETER'll be on view	A
And that if people tell me true	A
Is like to happen soon	Y

William Schwenck Gilbert

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