Milton Said

MILTON SAID

H. W. Bryce

The call to duty needs be hard to keep,

Though wait we impatient our chance to serve;

Then we rush in where angels do not dare,

Because we respond to that nightmare.

Though Milton, by all accounts a good man,

Was stricken blind amidst his most fertile

Creative life, Milton found, by grace and right,

Faith and belief, a way to cope and write.

Wrote as a devout Christian, espoused the

Philosophy of republicanism;

Such dichotomy in men today betrays

Lack of clarity in man’s logic ways.

Mr. Milton wrote, (he serves who waits);

So the poet sits, but the poet writes.

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PS: this not an attack on republicanism.

Though some practices of same are reprehensible.

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