Poetical works of the late F. Sayers to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor |
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ON TROWSE ORGAN.
Fungar vice cotis acutum.
Horace.
I Whetstone, clerk of this good parish,
Having no organs fit for singing,
And wishing much my breath to cherish,
Bought pipes to set the church a ringing.
Having no organs fit for singing,
And wishing much my breath to cherish,
Bought pipes to set the church a ringing.
Now, though I ne'er could hum a stave,
To some renown I still aspire,
For this brave organ which I gave,
Is deem'd the Whetstone of the choir.
To some renown I still aspire,
For this brave organ which I gave,
Is deem'd the Whetstone of the choir.
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