Heretics All

Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953



Heretics all, whoever you may be,
          In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,
          You never shall have good words from me.
          Caritas non conturbat me.

          But Catholic men that live upon wine
          Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine;
          Wherever I travel I find it so,
          Benedicamus Domino.

          On childing women that are forelorn,
          And men that sweat in nothing but scorn:
          That is on all that ever were born,
          Miserere Domine.

          To my poor self on my deathbed,
          And all my dear companions dead,
          Because of the love that I bore them,
          Dona Eis Requiem.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902, but kept his French citizenship. more…

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