Capitolo 46
realism not mitigated, the poorhouse of village in all of his/her bleakness and
decay:--
"There children indulge that he/she knows the care of any parents:
Parents that know the love of any children indulge there.
Matrons heart-routs on their bed without joy,
Desolate wives, and mothers never get married"
The dying poor man needs some first spiritual consolation he passes in the
I husk not seen,
"But first his/her death that some pious doubts derive,
Of the simple fears that you/they despise daring men, bad;
Fain is able him he/she asks to the parish priest to try
His/her certain title to the joys above:
For this he sends the murmuring nanny that calls
The extraneous saint to these dark walls;
It is doth not him, the pious man appears,
Him, 'passing rich with forty pounds for year?'
Ah! no: a shepherd of a different escort.
It is otherwise far from him, it feeds this small flock:
A jovial youth that he/she thinks the assignment of his/her Sunday
As much as God or man can fairly ask;
The rest he gives to loves and work light,
To fields the morning, and to parties the night;
Anybody specialized better the noisy package to drive,
To exhort their hunting, to console them or to scold;
A funeral complaint of sportsman, he shoots through half the day,
And, specialized to silence, dedication the night to play:
Then, while such honourses bloom around its head,
He sadly sits from the bed of the ill man,
To raise the hope he doesn't feel, or with zeal
Does to fight fear that e'en the pious touch?"
The child of Crabbe, after the death of his/her father he/she quoted in one note on
these lines what he contains to be a parallel passage of Cowper
_Progress of Error_, starting:--
"Oh, gives back or cries with me the sorry joke,
A huntsman of cassocked and a meaningless priest."
The first volume of Cowper, containing _Table-Talk_ and his/her companion
satires, appeared some months in front of the _Village_ of Crabbe. The
defects of the clergy are a theme of favourite with a various and he
gallery of the existing types of the ineffectiveness of cleric can be formed