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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From east and south the holy clan<br>Of Bishops gathered to a man;<br>To Synod, called Pan-Anglican,<br>In flocking crowds they came.<br>Among them was a Bishop, who<br>Had lately been appointed to<br>The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,<br>And PETER was his name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His people - twenty-three in sum -<br>They played the eloquent tum-tum,<br>And lived on scalps served up, in rum -<br>The only sauce they knew.<br>When first good BISHOP PETER came<br>(For PETER was that Bishop's name),<br>To humour them, he did the same<br>As they of Rum-ti-Foo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His flock, I've often heard him tell,<br>(His name was PETER) loved him well,<br>And, summoned by the sound of bell,<br>In crowds together came.<br>&quot;Oh, massa, why you go away?<br>Oh, MASSA PETER, please to stay.&quot;<br>(They called him PETER, people say,<br>Because it was his name.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He told them all good boys to be,<br>And sailed away across the sea,<br>At London Bridge that Bishop he<br>Arrived one Tuesday night;<br>And as that night he homeward strode<br>To his Pan-Anglican abode,<br>He passed along the Borough Road,<br>And saw a gruesome sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He saw a crowd assembled round<br>A person dancing on the ground,<br>Who straight began to leap and bound<br>With all his might and main.<br>To see that dancing man he stopped,<br>Who twirled and wriggled, skipped and hopped,<br>Then down incontinently dropped,<br>And then sprang up again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bishop chuckled at the sight.<br>&quot;This style of dancing would delight<br>A simple Rum-ti-Foozleite.<br>I'll learn it if I can,<br>To please the tribe when I get back.&quot;<br>He begged the man to teach his knack.<br>&quot;Right Reverend Sir, in half a crack!<br>Replied that dancing man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dancing man he worked away,<br>And taught the Bishop every day -<br>The dancer skipped like any fay -<br>Good PETER did the same.<br>The Bishop buckled to his task,<br>With BATTEMENTS, and PAS DE BASQUE.<br>(I'll tell you, if you care to ask,<br>That PETER was his name.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Come, walk like this,&quot; the dancer said,<br>&quot;Stick out your toes - stick in your head,<br>Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread -<br>Your fingers thus extend;<br>The attitude's considered quaint.&quot;<br>The weary Bishop, feeling faint,<br>Replied, &quot;I do not say it ain't,<br>But 'Time!' my Christian friend!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We now proceed to something new -<br>Dance as the PAYNES and LAURIS do,<br>Like this - one, two - one, two - one, two.&quot;<br>The Bishop, never proud,<br>But in an overwhelming heat<br>(His name was PETER, I repeat)<br>Performed the PAYNE and LAURI feat,<br>And puffed his thanks aloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another game the dancer planned -<br>&quot;Just take your ankle in your hand,<br>And try, my lord, if you can stand -<br>Your body stiff and stark.<br>If, when revisiting your see,<br>You learnt to hop on shore - like me -<br>The novelty would striking be,<br>And must attract remark.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;No,&quot; said the worthy Bishop, &quot;no;<br>That is a length to which, I trow,<br>Colonial Bishops cannot go.<br>You may express surprise<br>At finding Bishops deal in pride -<br>But if that trick I ever tried,<br>I should appear undignified<br>In Rum-ti-Foozle's eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The islanders of Rum-ti-Foo<br>Are well-conducted persons, who<br>Approve a joke as much as you,<br>And laugh at it as such;<br>But if they saw their Bishop land,<br>His leg supported in his hand,<br>The joke they wouldn't understand -<br>'T would pain them very much!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Of Bishops gathered to a man;
To Synod, called Pan-Anglican,
In flocking crowds they came.
Among them was a Bishop, who
Had lately been appointed to
The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,
And PETER was his name.

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