Wednesday, February 10, 2021

A Reasoned but as Yet Inconclusive Debate on the Events of 6 January 2021 - poem (of sorts)

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

A Reasoned but as Yet Inconclusive Debate

on the Events of 6 January 2021

 

 

Some assembly was required; the arguments are from:

 

The Merchant of Venice IV.i

The Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 3

The Jerusalem Bible, Psalm 106

 

 

The quality of mercy is not strain’d

No person shall…hold any office

Happy are we if we exercise justice

 

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

Civil or military, under the United States

And constantly practise virtue

 

But mercy us above this sceptred sway

Who, having previously taken an oath

We have sinned quite as much as our fathers

 

(Mercy) is enthroned in the hearts of kings

To support the Constitution of the United States

We have been wicked, we are guilty

 

And earthly power doth then show likest God’s

Shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion

For the sake of his name, he saved them

 

When mercy seasons justice

Against the same

Having faith in his promises

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