Do Not Disavow

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Do Not Disavow By: Rick Davis   When Charlemagne established law Salic in barb’rous land, The gospel flourished, and he saw Christ’s praise on every hand.   (“Do you approve his methods now?”) I do not disavow.   King Godfrey took Jerusalem From bloody paynim hands And brought a halt to Musselmen Invading Christian lands.   (“He did some mean things anyhow!”) I do not disavow.   King Richard with his scarlet shield And passant lions ‘bossed Rode forth again unto the field To regain what was lost.   (“His deeds at Acre you allow?”) I do not disavow.   Unto the Germans Luther brought The gospel full restored, And Calvin at Geneva taught The glory of the Lord.   (“The Jews? Servetus? Holy cow!”) I do not disavow.   Stonewall and Lee like knights of old Fought for their native soil, The true and lovely to uphold Against the tyrant’s spoil.   (“Those vile racists ...
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Jane Austen

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On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died after a lingering struggle with Addison's Disease. She was only 41 years old, and the English speaking world, unknowingly at the time, was deprived of one of its greatest novelists. Historian Paul Johnson captures this bereavement well:

"The knowledge that today this fatal complaint can easily be cured by modern medication heightens our sense of loss at her death at age forty-one... Her early death, like that of so many create people of her era--Keats, Shelley, Mozart, Weber, Girtin, Géricault, Bonington--leaves us with a fierce longing for the works she would undoubtedly have produced to delight us. There is no other writer I know of who inspires this feeling so poignantly. That is testimony to her greatness as a creator."

-from Creators by Paul Johnson, chapter 7

Rest in peace, dear Miss Austen.

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