Classic Poem

Gendarmes of heaven with flaming sword
Were sent by Thee unkindly,
To drive me forth from Paradise;
'Twas harshly done and blindly.

I took my wife and wandered far;
In other lands I range now;
But I have eaten wisdom's fruit —
That fact can never change now.

Thou canst not hide from me Thy weak
And despicable blunders,
However great Thou wouldst appear,
By dint of death and thunders.

O God, how pitiful is this
Consilium abeundi!
I call it a Magnificus
Of earth, a Lumen Mundi!

I would not have the Paradise
From which I once was chidden;
No Eden can that Eden be
Which holds a fruit forbidden.

The right to freedom must be mine;
Where power to compel is,
The Paradise, however fair,
A prison and a hell is.