C.S Lewis, brilliant 20th century scholar -
even though he wore no clerical collar
he spread morality on the BBC
ever since converting to Christianity
John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry,
a wife and twelve children also had he.
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