DOMESTIC tyrant. Dominating all Who dared stand up to him. Conventional. Clever. But shallow. Certainly a snob. Vain of his minor Civil Servant's job. Bursting with fierce and anxious energy. Impulsive. Slender-visioned. Swift to see A scheme's inception and its end—though he Was, in his want of depth, without regard For that scheme's middle ... dubious and hard. Himself neurotic, it was his to rear His luckless children in Unrest and Fear. Am'rous of the Effect and not the Thing, Small wonder was it that this man should bring Misfortune, misdirection to all His family: on which was doomed to fall The Nemesis of foolish deeds he did. ... And which, throughout the years, could never rid Itself of troubles which he brought on it Through lack of patience and default of wit. Beaten, each day, by want of self-control, He lived for eighty years ere Death took toll. ... His victims, and the wife who was his slave— Bluffed to the end—inscribed @3"Invictus"@1 on his grave! |