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The Schoolmaster.
So meek and unassuming still.
Women.
So kindly, and so nice!
Other Women.
And then
Such condescending gentlemen!
The Sexton.
<g>They</g> don't demand the martyr's throe.
The Schoolmaster.
The Lord's Prayer is not all they know.
[The throng passes on downwards.
The Dean.
[To the Mayor.]
Ah, that has taken. It is plain
A great revulsion is in train;
For, by God's blessed benefaction,
There is a thing men call Reaction.
The Mayor.
'Twas my achievement, to control
The infant riot ere it grew.
The Dean.
Ah, to the miracle most was due.
The Mayor.
What miracle?
The Dean.
The herring-shoal.
