4.16.2022

my earnestness, which might at first offend, Forgive me

My earnestness, which might at first offend, 
Forgive me, for the duty it implies: 
I am the convoy to the cloudy end 
Of a most bright and regal enterprise; 
Which under angry constellations, ill- 
Mounted and under-rationed and unspurred, 
Set forth to find if any country still 
Might do obeisance to an honest word. 
Duped and delivered up to rascals; bound 
And bleeding, and his mouth stuffed; on his knees; 
Robbed and imprisoned; and adjudged unsound; 
I have beheld my master, if you please. 
Forgive my earnestness, who at his side 
Received his swift instructions, till he died. 
  
Listen to it here 
 

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