Grass becomes flesh, one knows.
He grows like a bull of Bashan.
I am the grace he grows;
I startle his congregation.
He grows like a bull of Bashan,
One day he'll be Bishop or Dean.
I startle his congregation;
One day I shall preach to the Queen.
One day he'll be Bishop or Dean,
One of those science-haters;
One day I shall preach to the Queen.
To think of my going in gaiters!
One of those science-haters,
Blind as a mole or bat;
To think of my going in gaiters,
And wearing a shovel hat!
Blind as a mole or bat,
No faintest glimmer of light,
And wearing a shovel hat,
Morning and noon and night.
FOOTNOTES:
[47] On the early history of these forms in France, see Stengel's article in Gröber's Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie. vol. ii. pp. 87-96.
[48] On these ballades of Graunson, a "knight of Savoy," see the articles by A. Piaget, in Romania, vol. xix., and Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, vol. iii. p. 450.