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Very fit to become the glides , philosopher , and friends of the people , either of village or town , to understand their condition , enter into their opinions and feelings , and teach them how to secure their hest interests present and future ! * O not more dark or void the mind of him Who , in old days , intomb'd in cloisters dim ,
Passed his dull life afar from stirring- deeds , Lazily mumbling- pray ' rs , and counting beads , — Not more a stranger to this breathing world , The man round whom preserving * ice-wreaths eurl'd ; And , while thrice fifty times the fruits and dovr ' rs Burst forth to beautify this earth of ours ,
Kept him enshrined , and sent him forth at last , Unchanged since first the sleep was o ' er him cast , And worshipping the idols of his youth , Blind to the power that overthrew them—Truth ! He who with haughty eye and bigot frown Contemns whatever smacks not of the gown , And sees no wisdom save in high degree ,
Is this the man to teach us charity ? He who , insensate , shuts his pedant ears To all unhallow ed by a thousand years , Who hears not , in his pomp of lettered ease . The *• voices wandering over earth and seas / 7 Speaking strange truths , and filling land and sky , With the proud patriot ' s watch-word—liberty ;
Speaking in tones that brook not of disdain , Of tottering oligarchs and their loosened chain , — Who vainly strives , —the same as he began To fright the boy—to fright the full-grown man , Is this the being filled with pomp and pride , To point our duties , or our thoughts to guide ?
Well o ' er the flock the pensive bard might weep , When shepherds were ** more silly than their she * p / ' * p . 32-34 . The author has not left tq his readers to imagine how a portly divine of this class discharges his functions : we have a pauper funeral given us for a specimen . The quotation exemplifies the qualities which we have attributed to what we will not call the versification merely , but the poetry , of this little volume :
4 Clang ! clang ! goes the village bell again , And the Rector , red and hot , Has rattled along-, without slacking his rein . All through the village , and up the church lane , At an Osbaldeston trot ;
Wiping his brow , and panting for breath , He ' s afraid he will scarcely be in at the death . Faintl y * wearily , tolls the bell ; Clang ! clang ! clang *! * tis a pauper ' s knell A poor old man , \ vith silver hair * Broken by seventy years of care *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/35/
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