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EPIGRAM by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: OF OLD, WHEN THE CHURCH-BUILDING COFFER WAS FULL
Last Line: CONGREGATIONAL CHAPELS REQUIRE A QUEEN'S PIG!
Subject(s): EPIGRAM (AS LITERARY FORM); GRAVES; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
On hearing that two pigs from the Home Park, Windsor had been presented, by
command of Her Majesty, for the benefit of the Building Fund of the Victoria
Congregational Chapel.—1864.

OF old, when the church-building coffer was full,
Ere the work was begun, they requir'd a Pope's Bull;
Nowaday, when supremacy rests with the Whig,
Congregational chapels require a Queen's pig!



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