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"The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior / of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have / been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable / revival of religious customs among the Polynesians. " / _A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the names altered._
It was Isaiah Bunter / Who sailed to the world's end, / And spread religion in a way / That he did not intend.
He gave, if not the gospel-feast, / At least a ritual meal; / And in a highly painful sense / He was devoured with zeal.
And who are we (as Henson says) / That we should close the door?
And should not Evangelicals / All jump at shedding Gore?
And many a man will melt in man, / Becoming one, not two, / When smacks across the startled earth / The Kiss of Kikuyu.
When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist, / Essene, Erastian Whig, / And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic, / And the crew of the Captain's gig.