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"The Man Hath Penance Done"
“The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do”
-Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
We criticize some bishops, and rightly so
For sending out into the universe
Their resumes’ of wants and vanities
And shame: “That’s just the way the world works now”
But we must think on our more hidden shame
That smolders as a smaller heap of waste
Our wants and vanities, our lesser lists
And excuses: “That’s just the way the world…”
Oh.
We criticize the bishops, and rightly so
But first our own poor faults we’d better know
