JUNE 8th
(PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)
An extract from Virgil’s 4th Eclogue (40 BC):
“Now comes the era described
in the verse of the Sybil of Cumae,
From the beginning is started again
the great order of ages,
Now does the virgin return,
the Saturnian Kingdom appeareth;
Now from the heavens on high
is descending a new generation.
‘Thus’ spake in concert the Fates
addressing their spindles, according
To the eternal decree of the gods:
‘Run on, oh ye ages!
Bless him, the infant with whom
discontinues the era of iron;
Bless him with whom will arise
the new race that is gloriously golden,
Bless, chaste Lucina, the boy;
now reigneth thy brother Apollo.
Now is beginning this wonderful age
…
Then will the serpent die out….'”
An extract from John Bathurst Deane’s,
The Worship of The Serpent Traced Throughout The World (1883):
“Thus Apollo is the person
who petrifies
the Lesbian dragon….”
The Emperor Constantine (4th century AD):
“We perceive that these words are spoken plainly and at the same time darkly, by way of allegory. Those who search deeply for the import of the words, are able to discern the Divinity of Christ…. but, that he might avoid the severity of cruel men, he drew the thoughts of his hearers to objects with which they were familiar… Well said, wisest of bards! You have carried the license of a poet precisely to the proper point…. Cautiously, therefore, and securely, as far as possible, he presents the truth to those who have faculties to understand it.”
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Two Cinquains:
A snake!
A cornerstone!
An hour of darkness!
A summer month of graven pride
to fall!
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Gay pride
is most shameful.
Let Christ rule your Conscience.
Crooked passions can be made straight,
Repent!
NEW PURITAN 