Laughing at the King by Peter Pindar

Author:Peter Pindar [Peter Pindar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847778253
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thus curs’d the Major to Night’s listening ear,

Enough to turn a Christian pale to hear:

Thus, heedless of hereafter, for a pin

Will Men and Women run their souls in sin.

Now paus’d the Major, with a thoughtful air;

And now soliloquied with solemn stare:

‘Drunk with dominion, gorged with vicious thoughts,

With folly teeming, dozed by flattery’s draughts,

Taught to admire their very maudlin dreams,

And think their brains’ dull mudpools Wisdom’s streams,

Too many a Monarch lives, but, lo! not ours;

A King who Wisdom’s very self devours;

Snaps at arts, sciences, where’er they rise,

With all the fire of Boys at Butterflies.

Such cannot, surely, own a little heart;

Therefore our Locks and we may never part.’ –

Now, from a stool, a tinder-box he took,

And fiercely with the stone the steel he struck:

And, after many unsuccessful shocks,

The sparks inflamed the tinder in the box;

Which, by a match which John did sagely handle,

Gave sudden lustre to a farthing candle.

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