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At A Roman Visitor's Homesickness
[after Mark 6: 14-28]
These audit trails take me so far from home,
and local foibles make me yearn for Rome.
King Herod, as a prime example: can
a ruler really put his better reason
aside to grovel through lust for a season?
He has seduced his brother Philip's wife
and brought her here, pretending married life.
But now he stares a lot at her young daughter---
a gorgeous girl, about thirteen years old.
Herod is quite an ass of the first water.
A local preacher, John, by name, was bold
enough to tell King Herod of his wrong
(against his brother): I suspect, ere long,
someone will want to kill the holy man.
Starward
[jlc]
Overheard
Overheard quote from a soldier: "Aye, John should have fled while he was ahead."
Post Tenebras Spero Lucem
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