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The Devil's Dictionary - iTeX translation reports

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<strong>The</strong> godly multitudes walked to and fro<br />

Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,<br />

With pious mien, appropriately sad,<br />

While all the church bells made a solemn din—<br />

A fire-alarm to those who lived in sin.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n saw I gazing thoughtfully below,<br />

With tranquil face, upon that holy show<br />

A tall, spare figure in a robe of white,<br />

Whose eyes diffused a melancholy light.<br />

“God keep you, strange,” I exclaimed. “You are<br />

No doubt (your habit shows it) from afar;<br />

And yet I entertain the hope that you,<br />

Like these good people, are a Christian too.”<br />

He raised his eyes and with a look so stern<br />

It made me with a thousand blushes burn<br />

Replied—his manner with disdain was spiced:<br />

“What! I a Christian? No, indeed! I’m Christ.”<br />

G.J.

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