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Your Grace, you cannot be a common man There are no common men - but there are men And in their service, wearily, alone You now must bear their mitre and their ring Your Grace, please do not dine with the regime They’re only using you, laughing at you Nor with the blessed poor – you’ll slurp your soup And they deserve better company anyway Your Grace, you must completely humble yourself Submitting even to being addressed as “Your Grace”
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 3:53 PM UTC
To a Bishop
Your Grace, you cannot be a common man There are no common men - but there are men And in their service, wearily, alone You now must bear their mitre and their ring Your Grace, please do not dine with the regime They’re only using you, laughing at you Nor with the blessed poor – you’ll slurp your soup And they deserve better company anyway Your Grace, you must completely humble yourself Submitting even to being addressed as “Your Grace”
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is: Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com. It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 3:53 PM UTC
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