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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOKEN .. TO A COUNTRY CLERK .. HAVING HEARD HIM SING PSALMS, by JOHN WILMOT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sternhold and hopkins had great qualms
Last Line: By god! 'twould have made him mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Bible; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Sternhold, Thomas (d. 1549)
First Line: Sternhold and hopkins had great qualms
Last Line: By god! 'twould have made him mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Bible; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Sternhold, Thomas (d. 1549)
Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms
When they translated David's psalms
To make the heart full glad;
But had it been poor David's fate
To hear thee sing, and them translate,
By God! 'twould have made him mad.
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