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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old, when the church-building coffer was full
Last Line: Congregational chapels require a queen's pig!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Of old, when the church-building coffer was full
Last Line: Congregational chapels require a queen's pig!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
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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