THE HIGHER UNITY

It was Isaiah Bunter

Who sailed to the world's end,

And spread religion in a way

That he did not intend.

He gave, if not the gospel-feast,

At least a ritual meal;

And in a highly painful sense

He was devoured with zeal.

And who are we ( as Henson says )

That we should close the door?

And should not Evangelicals

All jump at shedding Gore?

And many a man will melt in man,

Becoming one, not two,

When smacks across the startled earth

The Kiss of Kikuyu.

When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist,

Essene, Erastian Whig,

And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic,

And the crew of the Captain's gig.