As if a Being heard a word we say:

This may surprise you; I myself began

To feel disturb’d, and to my Bible ran:

I now am wiser - yet agree in this,

The book has things that are not much amiss;

It is a fine old work, and I protest

I hate to hear it treated as a jest:

The book has wisdom in it, if you look

Wisely upon it as another book.”

“Oh! wicked! wicked! my unhappy child,