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His talk was like a stream which runs :With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; :It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep :The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep :For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
His talk was like a stream which runs :With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; :It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep :The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep :For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 778 · quotation 5 · Praed · The Vicar.
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