Ash Wednesday!
Adieu Mardi Gras!
The Lenten feast is passed away
Gone the scents and sweets and song
For I recall my sins today
They are many, insolent, and strong.
Who can strike these fetters from me?
Lovingly each massy link I tied
Freely made myself unfree
Slave to a sick all-sovereign pride.
The poets use their sweetest art
To urge you follow your high-winged heart!
To follow the corruptest malign heart …
The poets, they leave out that part.
Come, let us repent in ashes, and in prayer.
The unrepentant are terribly alone
Alone in pride, in despair alone
Clasp hands together; and find another there
Pray, and you will be in good company
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
