MY ALLEGIANCE - The Abandoned Project / Canto III

Most likely to be published sometime in latter 2017 or early 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included (in the bonus section) upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CANTO III - Cowáump, Nowáump


Cowáump? (Have you enough food? - Narrogánset). Nowáump
(I have enough - Narrogánset)… It is a strange truth, that a man
shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing
amongst these Barbarians, than amongst thousands that call
themselves Christians.

Roger Williams (theologian/Rhode Island founder, 1603-1683)
A Key Into the Language of America (book, 1643)


Ah, doctrinally believe
To religiously profess

Empirically cleave
To consistently assess

Truth by faith
Rectitude oft bestows

Fact unscathed
Certitude evenly flows

From antiquity's cave
To modernity's grave

So knaves in naves
Or duplicities waived

Such the arbitrary mazes
Inked paper in cases

Or face honesty's graces
Mid societies' motley paces

Cowáump, she befriends
Have enough, once again

Nowáump, he portends
It is enough, at eve's end

Pots stirred by words
Later hustled as herds

The masses concurred
Hence laments unheard


If the Wunnaumwáyean (Englishman) speake true, if hee meane
truly, then shall I goe to my grave in peace, and hope that English
and my posteritie shall live in love and peace together.

Canounicus (Narrogánset sachim, 1565-1647)
As recorded by Roger Williams
in A Key Into the Language of America (book, 1643).


Extended hands
With seed and corn

Then defended lands
On steeds with firstborns

Yet from it banned
Deeds sundered and torn

Ah the scorn grand
By misdeed, like thorns

Within reminiscing
Of affable beginning

And curious perusing
Then devious pursuing

Come the disparity
Mid either extremity

Amity or enmity
Charity or cupidity

Willful cordiality
Or legal criminality

Divers selections
Now, either election

Toxic promotions
Or logic's locution

Yet in rare situations
Williams' predilection


Obliged o'er ledge and rim, cozened and misled
Ridden, bled, and dead as per imperious pleasure
By odious measures upon indigenous treasures
The requisite trinity; Life, Liberty, and Property

Roger Williams (theologian/Rhode Island founder, 1603-1683)
A Key Into the Language of America (book, 1643)

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