The Turk's is at Constantinople best,

Idols in India, popery at Rome,

And our own worship only true at home;

And true but for the time, 'tis hard to know

How long we please it shall continue so;

This side to-day, and that to-morrow burns;

So all are God-almighties in their turns.

A tempting doctrine, plausible and new;

What fools our fathers were, if this be true!

Who, to destroy the seeds of civil war,