Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by CHARLES T. HICKEY



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THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by                    
First Line: A king came out of his palace
Last Line: The monarch who rose from the clay.
Subject(s): Justice


A KING came out of his palace
And a peasant out of his hut,
And the king with a sudden sword stroke
An ear from the peasant cut.

The king only thought of the peasant
As a toy for his merciless play
For to kings it is common knowledge
That peasants are made of clay.

The peasant was meek and humble
For the man who knows all things
Of times had told the peasant
That divine is the right of kings.

But it chanced that the lowly peasant
In the course of the passing years
Began to be discontented
At the loss of both of his ears.

And he happened to meet the monarch
When the sword had been laid away,
And injustice aroused the peasant
To a maddening impulse to slay.

The King was a child to the peasant
And the peasant was king from that day;
And divine is the right of this monarch,
The monarch who rose from the clay.





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