Again, when they say, "Little Bo-
peep has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them; let
them alone and they'll come home with their tails all right behind
them," is Little Bo-peep intended for mother Church? Are the sheep
our erring selves, and our subsequent return to the fold? No doubt
of it.
17. A child will often eat of itself what no compulsion can induce
it to touch. Men are disgusted with religion if it is placed before
them at unseasonable times, in unseasonable places, and clothed in a
most unseemly dress. Let them alone, and many will perhaps seek it
for themselves, whom the world suspects not. A whited sepulchre is
a very picturesque object, and I like it immensely, and I like a Sim
too. But the whited sepulchre is an acknowledged humbug and most of
the Sims are not, in my opinion, very far different.
Footnotes:
{1} This was called to my attention by a distinguished Greek
scholar of this University.
{2} The Hauenstein tunnel was not completed until later. Its
construction was delayed by a fall of earth which occurred in 1857
and buried sixty-three workmen.--R. A. S.
{3} Mr. J. F. Harris has identified Butler's rooms in the third
court of St. John's College.--R. A. S.
{4} As Walmisley died in January, 1856, this piece must evidently
date from Butler's first year at Cambridge.
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