To One Detested + 

Sir, you’re a veteran, revealed + 

In history and fable + 

As warrior since you took the field, + 

Defeating Abel. + 

As Commissary later (or + 

If not, in every cottage + 

The tale is) you contracted for + 

A mess of pottage. + 

In civil life you were, we read + 

(And our respect increases) + 

A man of peace⁠—a man, indeed, + 

Of thirty pieces. + 

To paying taxes when you turned + 

Your mind, or what you call so, + 

A wide celebrity you earned⁠— + 

Sapphira also. + 

In every age, by various names, + 

You’ve won renown in story, + 

But on your present record flames + 

A greater glory. + 

Cain, Esau, and Iscariot too, + 

And Ananias, likewise, + 

Each had peculiar powers, but who + 

Could lie as Mike lies? + 