Claim care for such?
'Tis hungry old sheep of good race
_My_ feelings touch.

"Your scheme will cost no end--and fail.
No sheep who ever twitched a tail
So foolish is--I would not rail!--
As _such_ a 'herd.'
I'd 'modest operations' hail,
But yours?--absurd!

"Better reform, relax, extend
The old provisions. I commend
Plenty of food, and care no end,
For all poor sheep;
But flocks would not _get_ poor, my friend,
_Had they good keep!_"

Fancy how JOE would cock a nose
At "Cockney JOHN," as certain foes
Called JOSEPH's rival. Words like those
Part Shepherd swains.
Sad when crook-wielders meet as foes
On pastoral plains!

Such two! O, do I live to see
Such famous pastors disagree,
Calling each other--woe is me!--
Bad names by turns?
Shall we not say in diction free