Stupid and stony, no! you're all asleep;

Listless and lazy, waiting for a close,

As if at church—Do I allow repose?

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Am I a legal minister? do I

With form or rubrick, rule or rite, comply?

Then, whence this quiet, tell me, I beseech?

One might believe you heard your rector preach,

Or his assistant dreamer;—Oh! return,

Ye times of burning, when the heart would burn.