Poems

<h4><SPAN name="THE_HIGHER_UNITY" id="THE_HIGHER_UNITY"></SPAN>THE HIGHER UNITY</h4> <p><span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">"The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">revival of religious customs among the Polynesians."</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;"><i>A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the names altered.</i></span><br/> <br/> It was Isaiah Bunter<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who sailed to the world's end,</span><br/> And spread religion in a way<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That he did not intend.</span><br/> <br/> He gave, if not the gospel-feast,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">At least a ritual meal;</span><br/> And in a highly painful sense<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">He was devoured with zeal.</span><br/> <br/> And who are we (as Henson says)<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That we should close the door?</span><br/> And should not Evangelicals<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">All jump at shedding Gore?</span><br/> <br/> And many a man will melt in man,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Becoming one, not two,</span><br/> When smacks across the startled earth<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Kiss of Kikuyu.</span><br/> <br/> When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist,<br/> Essene, Erastian Whig,<br/> And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the crew of the Captain's gig.</span><br/> <br/><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />