Of that country side,
And at last in the odour of sanctity died;
When, as words were too faint,
His merits to paint,
The Conclave determined to make him a Saint!
And on newly-made Saints and Popes, as you know,
It’s the custom, at Rome, new names to bestow,
So they canonised him by the name of Jim Crow!
R. H. Barham.
First published in Bentley’s Miscellany, 1837.