To William, Bishop of Oxford by Brian Kunde

To William, Bishop of Oxford
by Brian Kunde
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To William, Bishop of Oxford
by Brian Kunde

One William was a bishop in
The Oxford of Queen Anne:
He preached to Parliament on sin;
A most important man.

The sermon that he gave that day
Was published, and the name
Of William, Oxford's bishop, lay
In print before the same.

A man of his importance needs
No fuller introduction.
The office of itself succeeds
In selling the production.

The publisher presumably
Thought thus, and who's to say
He then was wrong? But certainly
He would have been today.

What was your surname, William? I
Can't learn, by hook or crook;
Which aggravates me as I try
To catalog your book.

Originally published in SUL News Notes, February 24, 1995.
c 1995 Brian Kunde.

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