The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood Edited, with notes by Walter Jerrold |
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THE SURPLICE QUESTION |
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THE SURPLICE QUESTION
A very pretty public stirIs making, down at Exeter,
About the surplice fashion:
And many bitter words and rude
Have been bestow'd upon the feud,
And much unchristian passion.
For me I neither know nor care
Whether a Parson ought to wear
A black dress or a white dress;
Fill'd with a trouble of my own,—
A Wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress!
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