Classic Poem

Miles outmouthing Ancient Pistol,
Ships keep holiday at Bristol:
Rapine mocking the Great Giver,
Wheat is sunk in Severn river;
Glory to the Squires for ever!
England, Ireland, waiting ruin,
Facts like this might teach all races—
Richmond braying, Churchill spuing,
Both are mask'd in human faces!
Thus, the Devil (Saints o'er-reaching,)
Takes the parson's form, when preaching
“Pomp and partridge for the idle,
Want far work, for thought a bridle,
Bench for Blindworm taught at college,
Hell-on-earth for useful knowledge!”