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T was Isaiah Bunter

Who sailed to the world's end,

And spread religion in a way

That he did not intend.

He gave, if not the gospel-feast,

At least a ritual meal;

And in a highly painful sense

He was devoured with zeal.

And who are we (as Henson says)

That we should close the door?

And should not Evangelicals

All jump at shedding Gore?

And many a man will melt in man,

Becoming one, not two,

When smacks across the startled earth

The Kiss of Kikuyu.