04-05-2017, 10:58 PM
Ideal King
Some will say Edward Plantagenet
King, of that name the third
ruined in his dotage decade
all that he’d accomplished
in a reign of theretofor
unequaled glory, valor, and success.
So corrupt his mistress and
venally incompetent her circle
that all Aquitaine was lost
the victories of Crecy
Sluys and Poitiers squandered
‘til the Parliament that he’d
assiduously consulted and obeyed
while sane and healthy
had to prosecute them in
his kingly absence.
Oh. But that means after
leading them to fame and unity
in his right person
senile Edward in his final
absence of mind
led the English people
in perforce learning
how to rule themselves.
God rest him, as he’d say
his battle-cry:
by Saint Edmund and Saint George!
Some will say Edward Plantagenet
King, of that name the third
ruined in his dotage decade
all that he’d accomplished
in a reign of theretofor
unequaled glory, valor, and success.
So corrupt his mistress and
venally incompetent her circle
that all Aquitaine was lost
the victories of Crecy
Sluys and Poitiers squandered
‘til the Parliament that he’d
assiduously consulted and obeyed
while sane and healthy
had to prosecute them in
his kingly absence.
Oh. But that means after
leading them to fame and unity
in his right person
senile Edward in his final
absence of mind
led the English people
in perforce learning
how to rule themselves.
God rest him, as he’d say
his battle-cry:
by Saint Edmund and Saint George!
Non-practicing atheist