From street to street the blast makes way;

All hear the summons, and obey.

Hundreds on hundreds flock to meet him,

With open mouths, as if they’d eat him.

“A B——p! aye! that ne’er can be

A human thing like you or me,”

Says one: “No, no,” replies a second,

“A B——p’s more than human reckon’d;

He consecrates, Sir, he ordains,

Gives orders, if he gives not brains: