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" A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed: Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. "
Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis - Page 174
by Benjamin Perley Poore - 1885
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A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire: Including a ...

John Murray (Firm) - Berkshire (England) - 1860 - 294 pages
...this, to live and die the vicar of Bray.' " Hence his declaration in the wellknown ballad : — • " To teach my flock I never missed Kings were by God appointed; Ami they are damned who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. Ami this is law, 1 will maintain...
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The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray, in the County of Berks

Charles Kerry - Bray (England) - 1861 - 256 pages
...harm in 't, A zealous High Churchman I was, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never miss'd Kings were by God appointed, And they are damned who dare resist, Or touch the Lord's anointed. Chorus—And this is law I will maintain, Until my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign,...
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A Tour Round England, Volume 1

Walter Thornbury - England - 1870 - 344 pages
...from Reading or Oxford, shouting to a rattling old tune the scurrilous ballad written upon him : " To teach my flock I never missed ; Kings were by God...king shall reign, I'll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir." The vicar was no hypocrite, however, for he always boldly avowed his principle of keeping office at...
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A Book about the Clergy, Volume 2

John Cordy Jeaffreson - Clergy - 1870 - 362 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed, Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist, Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I '11 maintain...
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Charles's golden days. When royalty no hnrm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. TF _7 M7.9 ϡN g+ + ΂ ʙ 3 V W : ( I 9!~XvCLZ= H lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. Chor. And this is law that I'll maintain...
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Poems of Places: England and Wales

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And tins is the law that I '11 maintain...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I'll maintain Until...
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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland ..., Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed: Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those who dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is the law that I 'll maintain...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so 1 got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed. And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is laic thai I 'II maintain...
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Single Famous Poems

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed : Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed. And this is law that I'll maintain Until...
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