Social Commentaries
Fragments for Alma: Besides a Man Must Never Put
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Social Commentaries
Besides a Man must never put
His Oar into anothers Boat.
Are there not Bells in every Steeple
To Summon in the Docile People ?
And Deans and Prebends, whose great Care
Some Two and Fifty times a Year
Shou'd to their Parish gravely read ?
But if They send them in their stead
Some Curate who can hardly spell,
This some conceive does e'en as well.
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Prior, Matthew. “Fragments for Alma: Besides a Man Must Never Put.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/276/.
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Prior, Matthew. “Fragments for Alma: Besides a Man Must Never Put.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/276/.
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