A Sequel to Don Juan — page 149: what you’re looking at

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‘140 A SEQUEL TO XXXIX. While millions starve at home, and children go Half-naked through the streets to beg their bread ; While o’er the land grim Want stalks to and fro, — And famished families ask to be fed,— The treasures of the charitable flow To foreign climes (with sorrow be it said ) To teach the savages to learn to read The Bible, and embrace the Christian creed.* XL. And if these be the viaducts to heaven, Exist there none within this happy isle To whom such benefits should first be given, And who most merit education’s smile 2 At home are there no sinners to be shriven ? Good Missionary, | pray thee—pause awhile To perfect all your fellow countrymen— Then seek new fields abroad—but not till then ! XI. There’s not a nation on earth’s face so prone To cant and to hypocrisy, as mine: Each sleek and oily methodist is known To have a sneaking love for girls or wine ;— But outwardly they’ll] raise their eyes, and groan, And shudder at the youthful libertine. Of all the humbug’s that on earth are quickening, Religious humbug is by far most sickening. * Allusion is here made to the various Foreign Missionary and Bible Societies. COPMICELOO KS. ECON