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This counsel he took from his love,

And in Parliament’s very next Session

He pleaded, with voice of a dove,

For “the excellent rite called Confession.”

But Premiers are wary, and they can see

Whom ’tis expedient to fish up;

Lo! an archiepiscopal vacancy,

And Sam is not made an Archbishop.

Rum-ti-iddi-ti-ti.