A Hymn to Temptation

Categories: just-for-fun

Date: 04 April 2009 00:21:44

Made me laugh [and cringe given the last verse could be applied to me last night!]: from the current edition of The Pharisaios Journal, a publication of the Diocese of Wenchoster.

A Hymn to Temptation
[to the tune Herzliebster Jesu]

Ah, strong enticement, show your face before me.
You think that sweetness shunned will not be easy.
Yet in my heart, I see the plate suggestive:
                        Chocolate Digestives!

Lent calls me now to live without the vino.
Eschew the gin, and other liquors also.
But in my mind’s eye, see I things bucolic:
                        Gordons and tonic!

Time to abide by rules and holy living,
Read every evening tales of faith uplifting.
What shall it be tonight? Oh no, I’m yawning!
                        Wait until morning!