THE SURPLICE QUESTION. BY A BENEDICT.
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A very pretty public stir Is making, down at Exeter, About the surplice fashion: And many bitter words and rude Have been bestowed upon the feud, And much unchristian passion. For me, I neither know nor care Whether a Parson ought to wear A black dress or a white dress; Fill’d with a trouble of my own,— A Wife who preaches in her gown, And lectures in her night-dress!