A CERTAIN PEOPLE.

As Puritans they prominently wax,

And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks.

Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks,

They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks.

But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks

When Peace another door in them unlocks,

Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox

Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe.