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So meek and unassuming still.

So kindly, and so nice!

And then Such condescending gentlemen!

They don't demand the martyr's throe.

The Lord's Prayer is not all they know.

[The throng passes on downwards.

[To the .]

Ah, that has taken. It is plain A great revulsion is in train; For, by God's blessed benefaction, There is a thing men call Reaction.

'Twas my achievement, to control The infant riot ere it grew.

Ah, to the miracle most was due.

What miracle?

The herring-shoal.