Thou hast confessions to listen,And bells to christen,And altars and dolls to dress;And fools to coax,And sinners to hoax,And beads and bones to bless;And great pardons to sellFor those who pay well,And small ones for those who pay less.
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About Robert Southey
Robert Southey was a 18th-century English romantic poet. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Read more on Wikipedia →