Rectitude and Beauty
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Matthew 6:28
The ant, a Puritan in black, moves right
Across the petal’s purity. The black
One works, works, works. The righteous worker, quite
The upright activist, upholds the knack
To do good stuff. The peony instead
Toils not nor spins. It meditates in white
And gold, both gold and white its peaceful spread,
Its innocence mild white, lacking-sin white.
The petals do not know what wrong is and
Surround a heart of gold. The white and gold
Are rich and everything of good. Bland
Black uprightness shouts righteousness like mold.
..No righteousness composed of work can place
….Itself as right against white works of grace.