Carbon animates ambition,
Oxygen controls volition;
Whatever’s good or great in men
May be traced to hydrogen;
And the body, not the soul,
Governs the unfathom’d whole.
From Notes and Queries.
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Although The Pious Editor’s Creed in “The Biglow Papers” cannot be styled a parody, it is exquisitely humorous, but much too long to give in full:—
I du believe in Freedom’s cause