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For me—thro' heathen ignorance perchance, Not having knelt in Palestine,—I feel None of that griffinish excess of zeal, Some travellers would blaze with here in France.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

For me—through heathen ignorance perchance, Not having knelt in Palestine,—I feel None of that griffinish excess of zeal, Some travelers would blaze with here in France.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James