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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A WONDERFUL age<br>Is now on the stage:<br>I'll sing you a song, if I can,<br>How modern Whigs,<br>Dance forty-one jigs,<br>But God bless our gracious Queen Anne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The kirk with applause<br>Is established by laws<br>As the orthodox church of the nation.<br>The bishops do own<br>It's as good as their own.<br>And this, Sir, is call'd moderation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's no riddle now<br>To let you see how<br>A church by oppression may speed;<br>Nor is't banter or jest,<br>That the kirk faith is best<br>On the other side of the Tweed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For no soil can suit<br>With every fruit,<br>Even so, Sir, it is with religion;<br>The best church by far<br>Is what grows where you are,<br>Were it Mahomet's ass or his pigeon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another strange story<br>That vexes the Tory,<br>But sure there's no mystery in it,<br>That a pension and place<br>Give communicants grace,<br>Who design to turn tail the next minute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if it be not strange,<br>That religion should change,<br>As often as climates and fashions;<br>Then sure there's no harm,<br>That one should conform.<br>To serve their own private occasions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another new dance,<br>Which of late they advance,<br>Is to cry up the birth of Pretender,<br>And those that dare own<br>The queen heir to the crown,<br>Are traitors, not fit to defend her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The subject's most loyal<br>That hates the blood royal,<br>And they for employments have merit,<br>Who swear queen and steeple<br>Were made by the people,<br>And neither have right to inherit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The monarchy's fixt,<br>By making on't mixt,<br>And by non-resistance o'erthrown;<br>And preaching obedience<br>Destroys our allegiance,<br>And thus the Whigs prop up the throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That viceroy is best,<br>That would take off the test,<br>And made a sham speech to attempt it;<br>But being true blue,<br>When he found 'twould not do,<br>Swore, damn him, if ever he meant it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis no news that Tom Double<br>The nation should bubble,<br>Nor is't any wonder or riddle,<br>That a parliament rump<br>Should play hop, step, and jump,<br>And dance any jig to his fiddle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, sir, they tell,<br>How Sacheverell,<br>By bringing old doctrines in fashion,<br>Hath, like a damn'd rogue,<br>Brought religion in vogue,<br>And so open'd the eyes of the nation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then let's pray without spleen,<br>May God bless the queen,<br>And her fellow-monarchs the people;<br>May they prosper and thrive,<br>Whilst I am alive,<br>And so may the church with the steeple.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</a><div class=q>
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Is now on the stage:
I'll sing you a song, if I can,
How modern Whigs,
Dance forty-one jigs,
But God bless our gracious Queen Anne.

The kirk with applause
Is established by laws
As the orthodox church of the nation.
The bishops do..."></div>
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