Canto 4.
LE LUTRIN.
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Follow their Leader: to the Quire they go,
There view the Object of their Rage, and Wo;
There on the Common Enemy they lay
United hands; and at the first essay
Pluck down the Provocation of their Spleen;
So in the Woods of Ardenne have I seen,
Sacred to Jove, an Ancient spreading Oak
Fall at the Axes oft redoubled stroke!
The Boards they rend in Pieces; and the Quarry
In Triumph to the Chanters Kitchin carry!
So Arduous was the work! of such Renown!
To set a Pulpit up, to pluck a Pulpit down!
There view the Object of their Rage, and Wo;
There on the Common Enemy they lay
United hands; and at the first essay
Pluck down the Provocation of their Spleen;
So in the Woods of Ardenne have I seen,
Sacred to Jove, an Ancient spreading Oak
Fall at the Axes oft redoubled stroke!
The Boards they rend in Pieces; and the Quarry
In Triumph to the Chanters Kitchin carry!
So Arduous was the work! of such Renown!
To set a Pulpit up, to pluck a Pulpit down!
FINIS.
