Jacob of England, champion of good grace,
Type of your noble nation’s noblest charms,
With peerless wit, your gallantry disarms
The self-made masters of the human race.
Vox populi, of wide and warm embrace,
From marbled cities to the moss-clad farms,
Though fools and traitors raise their false alarms
And multiply their ill designs apace.
May you, who keep the faith of ancient times,
When sweeter manners brought forth sweeter laws
And finer forms of courtesy held sway,
Receive these laurels gilded by my rhymes,
The measured witness of the world’s applause
And worthy usage of a distant day.
6 Comments
steven boyle
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie
I thank you, Mr. Boyle, for your kind comment with all good wishes from New Mexico here in the southwestern United States!
Evan Mantyk
A brilliant fellow with a promising future and such splendid laurels in rhyme!
Joseph Charles MacKenzie
MacKenzie Lyric Poetry is honoured to receive the attentions of Mr. Evan Mantyk, President of the Society of Classical Poets of which I am a proud member. I would like to take this time to please recommend to my readers the Society’s Journal VII (RhetAskew Publishing, 2019), one of the finest reviews of formal poetry on the market today: https://amzn.to/2HA0cTe
Janet Langton
So eloquently put … JRM is a gent, history oozes from his lips with every word.
Joseph Charles MacKenzie
Indeed, and history must inform our modern poetry, that men of great genius like Jacob Rees-Mogg may be justly celebrated in fitting words.