The Servant When He Reigneth
Posted on 12/24/2009 10:03:50 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat; for an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. -- Prov. XXX. 21-22-23.
Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook
The godly Agur counted them
And put them in a book --
Those Four Tremendous Curses
With which mankind is cursed;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Old Agur entered first.
An Handmaid that is Mistress
We need not call upon.
A Fool when he is full of Meat
Will fall asleep anon.
An Odious Woman Married
May bear a babe and mend;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Is Confusion to the end.
His feet are swift to tumult,
His hands are slow to toil,
His ears are deaf to reason,
His lips are loud in broil.
He knows no use for power
Except to show his might.
He gives no heed to judgment
Unless it prove him right.
Because he served a master
Before his Kingship came,
And hid in all disaster
Behind his master's name,
So, when his Folly opens
The unnecessary hells,
A Servant when He Reigneth
Throws the blame on some one else.
His vows are lightly spoken,
His faith is hard to bind,
His trust is easy boken,
He fears his fellow-kind.
The nearest mob will move him
To break the pledge he gave --
Oh, a Servant when he Reigneth
Is more than ever slave!
thank you so much for the post!
You’re very welcome. I’m a big Kipling fan.
Uncanny Bump
It IS uncanny. Damn.
Gee, what made you think of him? ;^)
So lemme see ... What we got here is a Fool Reiging while married to an Odious Mistress with his belly full of Waygu beef .....
Damn, he just about covered all the bases!
We’re Number One!
When was Obama ever a “servant”?
Frank Marshal Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, George Soros...
The unsavory nature of all of those guys aside, by this standard anybody who ever had a mentor figure or worked under someone else’s authority was a “servant.”
Here’s the difference: Free men and women in a free society serve no master, but perhaps God; people drawn to the collective are never free.
Some may say, servant of Marxist ideology, servant of Islamic hegemony, servant of selfinterest, servant of mediocrity or servant of Satan.
Any one might be Spot-on!
I would not know, I’ve never Kippled
When he fell to the feet of William Ayers and swore fealty to him and his cause.
Yep.
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