Renunciation

[EleCivil]

[Renunciation]

If all that?s said is only truth,

How nobler named than Liar be?

If every act heroic called,

What better cause than villainy?

Pray, come name me Charlatan!

?If such a name be needed

For better named untruthful than

Memorized, repeated.

May every word to leave these lips

Leave little but impressions

That every saunt?ring syllable

Led only low intentions.

Let all words spoken honestly

Lie caught between the teeth

And so be heard not publicly

Lest named, thus bound, to be.

[blue]

I'd try for an antique antic,

but lest I be misunderstood,

I'll say it plainly,

the poet's logic,

though convoluted,

that poem was quite good.