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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,