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The frequent ink-stand whizzing past his ear;
While all the five Directors laugh to see
“The limping priest so deft at his new ministry”.[[325]]
Last of th’ anointed Five behold, and least,
The Directorial Lama, Sovereign Priest,—
Lepaux;—whom atheists worship;—at whose nod
Bow their meek heads the Men without a God.[[326]]
Ere long, perhaps, to this astonish’d isle,
Fresh from the shores of subjugated Nile,