Lambeth Lyric Some seven score Bishops late at Lambeth sat, Gray-whiskered and respectable debaters: Each had on head a well-strung, curly hat; Some seven score Bishops late at Lambeth sat, And each wore gaiters. Grey-whiskered and respectable debaters: And when these prelates at their talk had been Each had on head a well-strung, curly hat; Long time, they made yet longer proclamation, And each wore gaiters. Saying: "These creeds are childish! both Nicene, And Athanasian. True, they were written by the Holy Ghost; So, to re-write them were perhaps a pity. And when these prelates at their talk had been Refer we their revision to a most Select Committee! Long time, they made yet longer proclamation, Saying: "These creeds are childish! both "Nicene And Athanasian. True, they were written by the Holy Ghost; So, to re-write them were perhaps a pity. Refer we their revision to a most Select Committee! In ten years* time we wise Pan Anglicans Once more around this Anglo Catholic table Will meet, to prove God's word more weak than man' s His truth less stable." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG by THOMAS CHATTERTON WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON THE OWL (1) by ALFRED TENNYSON MASKS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PASSIO XL MARTYRUM by ARTHUR E. BAKER RUSTIC CHILDHOOD by WILLIAM BARNES CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE |