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SOME years ago ere time and taste	A
Had turn d 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 clipp d rows of box and myrtle	G
And Don and Sancho Tramp and Tray	H
Upon the parlor steps collected	I
Wagg d all their tails and seem d to say	H
Our master knows you you re expected	I
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Up rose the reverend Doctor Brown	J
Up rose the doctor s winsome marrow	K
The lady laid her knitting down	J
Her husband clasp d his ponderous Barrow	K
Whate er the stranger s 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 reach d his journey s end	N
And warm d himself in court or college	O
He had not gain d 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 slipp d from politics to puns	R
It pass d 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 stablish d truth or startled error	M
The Baptist found him far too deep	U
The Deist sigh d with saving sorrow	K
And the lean Levite went to sleep	U
And dream d of tasting pork to morrow	K
	-
His sermon never said or show d	B
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 inspir d	B
The hand and head that penn d and plann d them	Y
For all who understood admir d	B
And some who did not understand them	Y
	-
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	Z
Lines to a ringlet or a turban	A2
And trifles to the Morning Post	Z
And nothings for Sylvanus Urban	A2
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He did not think all mischief fair	B2
Although he had a knack of joking	C2
He did not make himself a bear	B2
Although he had a taste for smoking	C2
And when religious sects ran mad	D2
He held in spite of all his learning	C2
That if a man s belief is bad	D2
It will not be improv d by burning	C2
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And he was king and lov d to sit	D
In the low hut or garnish d cottage	P
And praise the farmer s homely wit	D
And share the widow s homelier pottage	P
At his approach complaint grew mild	E2
And when his hand unbarr d the shutter	M
The clammy lips of fever smil d	B
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 learn d the rule of three	B
Cat s cradle leap frog and Qu genus	T
I used to singe his powder d wig	F2
To steal the staff he put such trust in	G2
And make the puppy dance a jig	F2
When he began to quote Augustine	C
	-
Alack the change In vain I look	H2
For haunts in which my boyhood trifled	B
The level lawn the trickling brook	H2
The trees I climb d the beds I rifled	B
The church is larger than before	I2
You reach it by a carriage entry	B
It holds three hundred people more	I2
And pews are fitted for the gentry	B
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Sit in the vicar s seat you ll hear	J2
The doctrine of a gentle Johnian	C
Whose hand is white whose voice is clear	K2
Whose tone is very Ciceronian	C
Where is the old man laid Look down	C
And construe on the slab before you	L2
Hic jacet Gulielmus Brown	C
Vir null non donandus lauro	K

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