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The Gargoyle often makes its perch / On a cathedral or a church, / Where, mid ecclesiastic style, / It smiles an early-Gothic smile!
And while the parson, dignified, / Spouts at his weary flock inside, / The Gargoyle, from its lofty seat, / Spouts at the people in the street, / And, like the parson, seems to say / To those beneath him, "Let us spray. " / I like the Gargoyle best; it plays / So cheerfully on rainy days, / While parsons (no one can deny) / Are awful dampers -- when they're dry!