Everyday Characters I - The Vicar Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Some years ago ere time and taste	A
Had turned our parish topsy turvy	B
When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste	A
And roads as little known as scurvy	B
The man who lost his way between	C
St Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket	D
Was always shown across the green	C
And guided to the Parson's wicket	E
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Back flew the bolt of lissom lath	F
Fair Margaret in her tidy kirtle	G
Led the lorn traveller up the path	F
Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle	G
And Don and Sancho Tramp and Tray	H
Upon the parlour steps collected	I
Wagged all their tails and seemed to say	H
'Our master knows you you're expected '	-
	-
Uprose the Reverend Dr Brown	J
Uprose the Doctor's winsome marrow	K
The lady laid her knitting down	J
Her husband clasped his ponderous Barrow	K
Whate'er the strangers caste or creed	L
Pundit or Papist saint or sinner	M
He found a stable for his steed	L
And welcome for himself and dinner	M
	-
If when he reached his journey's end	N
And warmed himself in Court or College	O
He had not gained an honest friend	N
And twenty curious scraps of knowledge	P
If he departed as he came	Q
With no new light on love or liquor	M
Good sooth the traveller was to blame	Q
And not the Vicarage nor the Vicar	M
	-
His talk was like a stream which runs	R
With rapid change from rocks to roses	S
It slipped from politics to puns	R
It passed from Mahomet to Moses	T
Beginning with the laws which keep	U
The planets in their radiant courses	V
And ending with some precept deep	U
For dressing eels or shoeing horses	V
	-
He was a shrewd and sound Divine	W
Of loud Dissent the mortal terror	M
And when by dint of page and line	W
He 'stablished Truth or startled Error	M
The Baptist found him far too deep	U
The Deist sighed with saving sorrow	K
And the lean Levite went to sleep	U
And dreamed of tasting pork to morrow	K
	-
His sermon never said or showed	X
That Earth is foul that Heaven is gracious	T
Without refreshment on the road	X
From Jerome or from Athanasius	T
And sure a righteous zeal inspired	Y
The hand and head that penned and planned them	Z
For all who understood admired	Y
And some who did not understand them	Z
	-
He wrote too in a quiet way	H
Small treatises and smaller verses	T
And sage remarks on chalk and clay	H
And hints to noble lords and nurses	T
True histories of last year's ghost	A2
Lines to a ringlet or a turban	B2
And trifles for the Morning Post	A2
And nothings for Sylvanus Urban	B2
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He did not think all mischief fair	C2
Although he had a knack of joking	D2
He did not make himself a bear	C2
Although he had a taste for smoking	D2
And when religious sects ran mad	E2
He held in spite of all his learning	D2
That if a man's belief is bad	E2
It will not be improved by burning	D2
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And he was kind and loved to sit	D
In the low hut or garnished cottage	P
And praise the farmer's homely wit	D
And share the widow's homelier pottage	P
At his approach complaint grew mild	F2
And when his hand unbarred the shutter	M
The clammy lips of fever smiled	F2
The welcome which they could not utter	M
	-
He always had a tale for me	B
Of Julius C sar or of Venus	T
From him I learnt the rule of three	B
Cat's cradle leap frog and Quae genus	T
I used to singe his powdered wig	G2
To steal the staff he put such trust in	H2
And make the puppy dance a jig	G2
When he began to quote Augustine	C
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Alack the change in vain I look	I2
For haunts in which my boyhood trifled	F2
The level lawn the trickling brook	I2
The trees I climbed the beds I rifled	F2
The church is larger than before	J2
You reach it by a carriage entry	B
It holds three hundred people more	J2
And pews are fitted up for gentry	B
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Sit in the Vicar's seat you'll hear	K2
The doctrine of a gentle Johnian	C
Whose hand is white whose tone is clear	L2
Whose phrase is very Ciceronian	C
Where is the old man laid look down	C
And construe on the slab before you	M2
'Hic jacet GVLIELMVS BROWN	C
Vir nulla non donandus lauru '	-

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Everyday Characters I - The Vicar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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