Paradoxtrine:
One is Three, Ta DA!
A god or demigod was lurking round
The corner everywhere. The pagan mind
Was wonderfully elastic, never bound
By anything but superstition, blind
Belief requiring nothing like strict thought:
A thousand deities were normal stuff.
If you want pagans to lick GOD, you’ve got
To speak their holy tongue. It’s not enough
To shout, “He’s One!” Tell them divinity
Ain’t single: yell, “It’s Three!” Hold councils where
Robed subtle thinkers prove the Trinity.
And then when you have Three, not “He is,” you square
Up to the fuzzy pagan brain, and spin
Your Holy Pagan doctrine—and you win!