Classic Poem

The Reverend Homer Wilbur sends
His best respects to brother Lowell
Would come to meet him with his friends
If Homer Junior was not so ill
Is loath to trouble Brother L.
Desires to send his special blessing
A note of several things as well
H. W's anxious for possessing.

A pocket copy — if its found
Of all the earlier Christian fathers
" Daimon, or Satan's Arm unbound "
A missing tract of Cotton Mather's
Item a lock of Wickliff's hair
And Calvins book on Revelation
Please ask if Reverend Jubb can spare
His Peddlingtonian dissertation

Likewise a portrait of the lad
The ninth or tenth of Smithfields martyrs
I send my own (which cant be had)
To trade with in the way of barter
The Lord be with my youthful friend
And save his lot from all disaster —
Please dont forget it when you send
To pay the postage for your pastor.