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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...CHORUS. 'Tis John the mocker cries, Save thou me 7. Who maketh God's menace an idle word?--Saith, it no more means what it proclaims, Than a damsel's threat to her wanton bird?--For she too prattles of ugly names.--Saith, he knoweth but one thing, --what he knows? ' That God is good and the rest is breath; Why else is the same styled, Sharon's rose? Once a rose, ever a rose, he saith. Alack, there be roses and roses, John Some honied of taste like your leman's tongue. Some, bitter--for why? (roast gayly on ) Their tree struck root in devil's dung When Paul once reasoned of righteousness And of temperance and of judgment to come, Good Felix trembled, he could no less--John, snickering, c.rook'd his wicked thumb. CHORUS What cometh to John of the wicked thumb? 9. Ha ha, John plucks now at his rose To rid himself of a sorrow at heart Lo, --petal on petal, fierce rays unc1ose; Anther on anther, sharp spikes outstart; And with blood for dew, the bosom boils; And a gust of sulphur is all its smell; And lo, he is horribly in the toils ' Of a coal-black giant flower of Hell cnonus. What maketh Heaven, that maketh Hell. 10. So, as John called now, through the fire amain, On the Name, he had cursed with, all his life--To the Person, he bought and sold again--For the Face, with his daily buffets rife--Feature by feature It took its place And his voice like a mad dog's choking bark At the steady Whole of the Judge's Face-Died. Forth John's soul flared into the dark. SUBJOINETH THE ABBOT DEODAET. i God help all poor souls lost in the dark TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA. 1. I WONDER do you feel to-day As I have felt, since, hand in hand, We sat down on the grass, to stray In spirit better through the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154785906 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154785904 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $22.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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