04-09-2022, 08:16 AM
Informed
After we raised him from the dead
(a tough job given scattering
of his parts by royalists)
we took it on ourselves to ask
Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
his opinion of George Washington
as a sort of Plutarch’s parallel
to his own life. We thought
to teaze him as his Commonwealth
barely survived him while
Washington’s Republic just rolls on.
And he said,
“Washington’s a godly man
of no particular religion;
he was always humble before
the opinions of others
and failed often
but not in the end.
“I on t’other hand
was always humble before my God
but no man. I knew Providence
would grant success;
Wahington thanked Providence
when he succeeded.”
A little piqued, we asked him then
which of the two God rated higher
since he was one to know.
And Cromwell smiled his crooked smile
and saying, “Neither,” vanished.
After we raised him from the dead
(a tough job given scattering
of his parts by royalists)
we took it on ourselves to ask
Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
his opinion of George Washington
as a sort of Plutarch’s parallel
to his own life. We thought
to teaze him as his Commonwealth
barely survived him while
Washington’s Republic just rolls on.
And he said,
“Washington’s a godly man
of no particular religion;
he was always humble before
the opinions of others
and failed often
but not in the end.
“I on t’other hand
was always humble before my God
but no man. I knew Providence
would grant success;
Wahington thanked Providence
when he succeeded.”
A little piqued, we asked him then
which of the two God rated higher
since he was one to know.
And Cromwell smiled his crooked smile
and saying, “Neither,” vanished.
Non-practicing atheist