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 Set by the State to guard and guide,— Look, we must stand against the tide, Cherish the Church and Education, And keep aloof from agitation. Briefly, in nothing take a side.

But Parson's in it, heart and soul.

And just in that forgets his rôle. His own superiors, well I know, Look with displeasure on his action, And, dared they but offend his faction, Had thrown him over long ago. But he is fine; he smells a rat; He's got a recipe for that. He builds the Church. Here you may glue All eyes up, if you will but do. What's done none has a thought to spare for; The doing of it's all they care for. So they who follow, and we who lead, All equally are men of deed.

Well, you have sat in the great Thing, And ought to know the Land and Folk; But one who travell'd through the glen A little after we awoke Said, we'd been sleeping folks till then, But, having waked,—were promising.

Yes; we're a promising folk, of course,— And mighty promises we're giving,—