PATRICK O’Brien writes from Denver:
That article from May 5, “To Whom Obedience Is Not Due,” brought to mind this poem by Belloc.
BALLADE OF THE HERESIARCHS
John Calvin whose peculiar fad
It was to call God murderous,
Which further led that feverish cad
To burn alive the Servetus.
The horrible Bohemian Huss,
the Tedious Wycliffe, where are they ?
But where is old Nestorius ?
The wind has blown them all away.
The Kohen out of Novgorad
Who argued from the Roman Jus
” Privata fasta nihil ad
Rem nisi sint de sacribus.”
And Hume, who made a dreadful fuss
About the Resurrection Day
And said it was ridiculous —
The wind has blown them all away.
Of Smith the gallant Mormon lad
That took of wives an over-plus :
Johanna Southcott who was mad
And nasty Nietzsche, who was worse.
Of Tolstoy, the Eccentric Russ,
Our strong Posterity shall say :
” Lord Jesus I What are these to us ?
The wind has blown them all away !
” Envoi Prince, should you meet upon a bus
A man who makes a great display
Of Dr Haeckel, argue thus :
— The wind has blown them all away.
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I added an update:
The Modernists of ’62
Who highjacked Council, Pope, and Mass;
Ecumenists and you know who
Who made Assisi weep, alas;
The Montanists of Medjugor…
Hans Urs and Aaron Lustiger;
The women’s ordination corps —
The wind will blow them all away.
And ask a hundred autumns hence
The fate of moderates today
Who speak their piece upon the fence,
The wind has blown them all away.
