The Education of a Plenary Man

Fighting Leviathan

The Education of a Plenary Man
Fighting Leviathan

To educate is to raise a plenary man
To full maturity from infancy, in Christ;
That space is far too wide for parents’ span.

Impoverished, the State machines its plan
To offer its ghost unfinished antichrist,
But to educate is to raise a plenary man.

A man in parts is the most the State will or can,
Chimaeras of your half-waked sons already spliced,
A hell that’s far too deep for parents’ span.

A man in full will war to break the band
Of the State’s seduction surrogate and enticed,
For to educate must be to free the man.

With child and parent unfruitful how may we stand?
Must our sons unripe and unready pay that price?
That cost is far too great for parents’ span.

Generously the Word has made his plan
By Spirit to raise for whom he sacrificed;
For to educate’s to raise a plenary man,
A task too great for Man or State to span.

Originally published in the The Consortium: a Journal of Classical Education, June 2022.