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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo Again</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often wonder whether you<br>Think sometimes of that Bishop, who<br>From black but balmy Rum-ti-Foo<br>Last summer twelvemonth came.<br>Unto your mind I p'r'aps may bring<br>Remembrance of the man I sing<br>To-day, by simply mentioning<br>That PETER was his name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember how that holy man<br>Came with the great Colonial clan<br>To Synod, called Pan-Anglican;<br>And kindly recollect<br>How, having crossed the ocean wide,<br>To please his flock all means he tried<br>Consistent with a proper pride<br>And manly self-respect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He only, of the reverend pack<br>Who minister to Christians black,<br>Brought any useful knowledge back<br>To his Colonial fold.<br>In consequence a place I claim<br>For &quot;PETER&quot; on the scroll of Fame<br>(For PETER was that Bishop's name,<br>As I've already told).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He carried Art, he often said,<br>To places where that timid maid<br>(Save by Colonial Bishops' aid)<br>Could never hope to roam.<br>The Payne-cum-Lauri feat he taught<br>As he had learnt it; for he thought<br>The choicest fruits of Progress ought<br>To bless the Negro's home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he had other work to do,<br>For, while he tossed upon the Blue,<br>The islanders of Rum-ti-Foo<br>Forgot their kindly friend.<br>Their decent clothes they learnt to tear -<br>They learnt to say, &quot;I do not care,&quot;<br>Though they, of course, were well aware<br>How folks, who say so, end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some sailors, whom he did not know,<br>Had landed there not long ago,<br>And taught them &quot;Bother!&quot; also, &quot;Blow!&quot;<br>(Of wickedness the germs).<br>No need to use a casuist's pen<br>To prove that they were merchantmen;<br>No sailor of the Royal N.<br>Would use such awful terms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, when BISHOP PETER came<br>(That was the kindly Bishop's name),<br>He heard these dreadful oaths with shame,<br>And chid their want of dress.<br>(Except a shell - a bangle rare -<br>A feather here - a feather there<br>The South Pacific Negroes wear<br>Their native nothingness.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He taught them that a Bishop loathes<br>To listen to disgraceful oaths,<br>He gave them all his left-off clothes - <br>They bent them to his will.<br>The Bishop's gift spreads quickly round;<br>In PETER'S left-off clothes they bound<br>(His three-and-twenty suits they found<br>In fair condition still).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bishop's eyes with water fill,<br>Quite overjoyed to find them still<br>Obedient to his sovereign will,<br>And said, &quot;Good Rum-ti-Foo!<br>Half-way I'll meet you, I declare:<br>I'll dress myself in cowries rare,<br>And fasten feathers in my hair,<br>And dance the 'Cutch-chi-boo!'&quot; (13)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to conciliate his See<br>He married PICCADILLILLEE,<br>The youngest of his twenty-three,<br>Tall - neither fat nor thin.<br>(And though the dress he made her don<br>Looks awkwardly a girl upon,<br>It was a great improvement on<br>The one he found her in.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bishop in his gay canoe<br>(His wife, of course, went with him too)<br>To some adjacent island flew,<br>To spend his honeymoon.<br>Some day in sunny Rum-ti-Foo<br>A little PETER'll be on view;<br>And that (if people tell me true)<br>Is like to happen soon.</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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Think sometimes of that Bishop, who
From black but balmy Rum-ti-Foo
Last summer twelvemonth came.
Unto your mind I p'r'aps may bring
Remembrance of the man I sing
To-day, by simply mentioning
That PETER was his name.

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