Prayer Crusader St Cecilia writes:
It is astonishing what you discover browsing in the highways and byways of English literature. Who knew that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley forecast the disastrous results of Padre Bergoglio’s papacy over two hundred years ago? I refer to his sonnet misleadingly entitled ‘Ozymandias’:
I
met a traveller from an antique land
Who
said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand
in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half
sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And
wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell
that its sculptor well those passions read
Stamped
on these lifeless things, the hates, the hopes,
The
hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And
on the pedestal these words appear:
“My
name is Père Bergoglio, Pope of Popes:
Look
on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing
beside remains. Round the decay
Of
that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The
lone and level sands stretch far away.
Shelley
might have been a notorious atheist but self-evidently he had more foresight
than a certain pope I could name!
