Social Commentaries
The Surplice Question
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
A very pretty public stir
Is making, down at Exeter,
About the surplice fashion:
And many bitter words and rude
Have been bestowed 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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Hood, Thomas. “The Surplice Question.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/163/.
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Hood, Thomas. “The Surplice Question.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/163/.
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