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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOPHET; AN EPIGRAM, by THOMAS GRAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Such tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
Last Line: And satan's self had thoughts of taking orders.
Subject(s): Etough, Henry
First Line: Such tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
Last Line: And satan's self had thoughts of taking orders.
Subject(s): Etough, Henry
Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
While frighted prelates bow'd and called him friend;
I saw them bow, and while they wish'd him dead,
With servile simper nod the mitred head.
Our Mother-Church with half-averted sight
Blush'd as she blesst her griesly proselyte:
Hosannahs rung through Hell's tremendous borders,
And Satan's self had thoughts of taking orders.
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