KENTUCKY

[From the same]

I hate Kentucky, curse the place,

And all her vile and miscreant race!

Who make religion's sacred tie

A mask thro' which they cheat and lie.

Proteus could not change his shape,

Nor Jupiter commit a rape

With half the ease those villains can

Send prayers to God and cheat their man!

I hate all Judges here of late,

And every Lawyer in the State.

Each quack that is called Physician,

And all blockheads in Commission--

Worse than the Baptist roaring rant,

I hate the Presbyterian cant--

Their Parsons, Elders, nay, the whole,

And wish them gone with all my soul.

Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 · 第 37 / 300 题