04-03-2025, 12:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2025, 12:40 AM by RiverNotch.)
What the Gospel sets loose, the Apostles bind,
as the Law governs and the Prophets liberate;
as Homer and Ovid render human the divine,
the Philosophers and Lucan seek to divinize the human.
An oppressed people finds its voice in their kings,
while the oppressors' First Citizen is honored by the son
of a rural magistrate's plebeian assistant,
and seeking to synthesize, however roughly,
are the little-read Statius and Sirach,
are the little-grasped Dante and Job.
But diving deeper into themselves
than even Horace, Persius, Juvenal, and Terence
so as to make all division redundant
are Shakespare and Petrarch, Chaucer and Boccaccio.
as the Law governs and the Prophets liberate;
as Homer and Ovid render human the divine,
the Philosophers and Lucan seek to divinize the human.
An oppressed people finds its voice in their kings,
while the oppressors' First Citizen is honored by the son
of a rural magistrate's plebeian assistant,
and seeking to synthesize, however roughly,
are the little-read Statius and Sirach,
are the little-grasped Dante and Job.
But diving deeper into themselves
than even Horace, Persius, Juvenal, and Terence
so as to make all division redundant
are Shakespare and Petrarch, Chaucer and Boccaccio.