Songs and Verses Social and Scientific: By An old contributor to Maga [i.e. Charles Neaves]: Fourth Edition, Enlarged |
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THE THREE MODERATORS. |
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THE THREE MODERATORS.
When a clerical set
In Assembly are met,
They are apt to prove angry debaters;
So, their wrath to restrain,
And due calmness maintain,
They have men that are called Moderators.
All Churches should have Moderators,
And should choose them of peaceable naturs;
Much trouble it saves
When some oil on the waves
Can be poured by your true Moderators.
In Assembly are met,
They are apt to prove angry debaters;
So, their wrath to restrain,
And due calmness maintain,
They have men that are called Moderators.
All Churches should have Moderators,
And should choose them of peaceable naturs;
Much trouble it saves
When some oil on the waves
Can be poured by your true Moderators.
But this good class of men,
I'm afraid, now and then,
To their office of peace have proved traitors;
And too much, on the whole,
Have kept blowing the coal,
When they ought to have been Moderators.
What a pity that Church Moderators,
Like so many Vesuvian craters,
Should send forth, in their ire,
Thunder, fury, and fire
All around these inflamed Moderators.
I'm afraid, now and then,
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And too much, on the whole,
Have kept blowing the coal,
When they ought to have been Moderators.
What a pity that Church Moderators,
Like so many Vesuvian craters,
Should send forth, in their ire,
Thunder, fury, and fire
All around these inflamed Moderators.
I took pains to compare
The harangues from the chair
Lately made by two Reverend Paters;
And I read, the same day,
What the Pope had to say—
For the Popes are just Rome's Moderators.
The Pope and our two Moderators
Are surely not three Agitators!
Yet it's clear that the first,
Who, I hope, is the worst,
Is no model for true Moderators.
The harangues from the chair
Lately made by two Reverend Paters;
And I read, the same day,
What the Pope had to say—
For the Popes are just Rome's Moderators.
The Pope and our two Moderators
Are surely not three Agitators!
Yet it's clear that the first,
Who, I hope, is the worst,
Is no model for true Moderators.
One famous divine,
In his humorous line,
Could not fail to delight all spectators;
But some thought to his tongue
An astringency clung,
Scarcely known to our old Moderators.
The third of these same Moderators
I wish may have some imitators:
For Bisset to me,
Seemed the best of the three,
And comes nearest our true Moderators.
In his humorous line,
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But some thought to his tongue
An astringency clung,
Scarcely known to our old Moderators.
The third of these same Moderators
I wish may have some imitators:
For Bisset to me,
Seemed the best of the three,
And comes nearest our true Moderators.
1862.
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