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and scold
For--doing as the Romans do at Rome?
With such a bristling spirit wherefore quit
The Land of Cakes for any land of wafers
About the graceless images to flit
And buzz and chafe importunate as chafers
Longing to carve the carvers to Scotch collops?--
People who hold such absolute opinions
Should stay at home in Protestant dominions
Not travel like male Mrs. Trollopes.
Gifted with noble tendency to climb
Yet weak at the same time
Faith is a kind of parasitic plant
That grasps the nearest stem with tendril rings;
And as the climate and the soil may grant
So is the sort of tree to which it clings.
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Considerthenbeforelike Hurlothrumbo
You aim your club at any creed on earth
Thatby the simple accident of birth
YOU might have been High Priest to Mungo Jumbo.
For me--through heathen ignorance perchance
Not having knelt in Palestine--I feel
None of that griffinish excess of zeal
Some travelers would blaze with here in France.
Dolls I can see in Virgin-like array
Nor for a scuffle with the idols hanker
Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play
If their "offense be rank should mine be RANCOR?
Mild light
and by degrees
should be the plan
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