A Parable for Demythologizers

"'We come with rusty hatchets to chop down

Old Yggdrasil, the mightiest of trees;

We come with buckets full of air to drown

Old Triton, ruler of the seven seas.

For we are modern men, the heirs of time,

And won't be ruled by anything that's gone

Before. So if we think it more sublime

To exorcise Aurora from the dawn,

Then who is there who dares to say us nay?'"

And so the desert wind swept through their minds

And found no obstacle placed in its way

To stop the stinging dust, the sand that blinds.

Blistered, parched, and withered, one by one

They fell beneath the branches of the tree,

Succumbing to the unrelenting sun

In cool green shade beside the roaring sea."

- Donald T. Williams

Have a blessed Lord's Day!