From hoof to tail, from tail to head:
All did the anguish catch.


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And yet, though seemed this sharp correction
Stereotyped in Satan's recollection,
As in his smarting hocks;
Not until he the following deed
Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed
The vagabond from stocks.


TO ALL good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument
shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: KNOW YE that for
himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never
at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never
where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or
harmony is woo'd, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on
land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on
bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude.


The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof,
From visits of this rover's hoof,
The emblem seen preventing.
He recks the bond, but more the pain,
The nails went so against the grain,