Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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IRRELIGION.
God! God! I feel my very Heartsblood rise,Boiling with Indignation at the Thought
That divine Things should thus be sold and bought.
Oh! send thy Son down once more from the Skies
To cleanse the Temple of such Blasphemies:
For Moneychangers there have so long wrought
Their Trade of Infamy, that they have brought
(In Minds that mark not where the real Ill lies)
E'en thy Name into Disrepute—not worth
Is longer deemed a Requisite for thy
Bless'd Service, but mere worldly Wealth or Birth!
And thus of Divine Things there is such Dearth,
That carnalminded Priests, yea! e'en close by
Thine Altar, make thy Word a Mockery!
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