An acrostic of Benedict Arnold
Born for a curse to virtue and Mankind,
Earth's broadest realms can't show so black a mind.
Night's Sable veil your crimes can never hide,
Each one's so great--they glut the historic tide.
Defunct--your memory will live
In all the glare that infamy can give.
Curses of ages will attend your name,
Traitors alone will glory in your shame.
Almighty injustice sternly waits to roll
Rivers of sulphur on your traitorous soul.
Nature looks back, with conscious error sad,
On such a tainted blot that she has made,
Let Hell receive you rivetted in chains,
Damn'd to the hottest of its flames.
Hardcopy -- "Bendict Arnold: Revolutionary Hero, An American Warrior Reconsidered" by James Kirby Martin
On page 254 of 432 of "Benedict Arnold: Revolutionary Hero", by James Kirby Martin and so far he has done nothing but suffer for the cause. Did he deserve an #acrostic about being damned?I'll keep the #bookreaders posted. 👀
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