Poor dear God sat alone in his private chamber1, moody2, melancholy3, miserable4, sulky, sullen5, weary, dejected, supenally hipped6. It was the evening of Sunday, the 24th of December, 1865. Waters continually dripping wear away the hardest stone; year falling after year will at length overcome the strongest god: an oak-tree outlasts7 many generations of men; a mountain or a river outlasts many celestial8 dynasties. A cold like a thick fog in his head, rheum in his eyes, and rheumatism9 in his limbs and shoulders, his back bent10, his chin peaked, his poll bald, his teeth decayed, his body all shivering, his brain all muddle11, his heart all black care; no wonder the old gentleman looked poorly as he cowered12 there, dolefully sipping13 his Lachryma Christi. “I wish the other party would lend me some of his fire,” he muttered, “for it is horribly frigid14 up here.” The table was crowded and the floor littered with books and documents, all most unreadable reading: missionary15 reports, controversial divinity, bishops’ charges, religious periodicals, papal allocutions and encyclical letters, minutes of Exeter Hall meetings, ponderous16 blue books from the angelic bureaux—dreary as the humor of Punch, silly as the critiques of the Times, idiotic17 as the poetry of All the Year Round. When now and then he eyed them askance he shuddered18 more shockingly, and looked at his desk with loathing19 despair. For he had gone through a hard day’s work, with extra services appropriate to the sacred season; and for the ten-thousandth time he had been utterly20 knocked up and bewildered by the Athanasian Creed21.
While he sat thus, came a formal tap at the door, and his son entered, looking sublimely23 good and respectable, pensive24 with a pensiveness25 on which one grows comfortably fat. “Ah, my boy,” said the old gentleman, “you seem to get on well enough in these sad times: come to ask my blessing26 for your birthday fête?” “I fear that you are not well, my dear father; do not give way to dejection, there was once a man—
“O, dash your parables27! keep them for your disciples28; they are not too amusing. Alack for the good old times!” “The wicked old times you mean, my father; the times when we were poor, and scorned, and oppressed; the times when heathenism and vain philosophy ruled everywhere in the world. Now, all civilised realms are subject to us, and worship us.” “And disobey us. You are very wise, much wiser than your old worn-out father; yet perchance a truth or two comes to me in solitude29, when it can’t reach you through the press of your saints, and the noise of your everlasting30 preaching and singing and glorification31. You know how I began life, the petty chief of a villainous tribe. But I was passionate32 and ambitious, subtle and strong-willed, and, in spite of itself, I made my tribe a nation; and I fought desperately33 against all the surrounding chiefs, and with pith of arm and wile34 of brain I managed to keep my head above water. But I lived all alone, a stern and solitary36 existence. None other of the gods was so friendless as I; and it is hard to live alone when memory is a sea of blood. I hated and despised the Greek Zeus and his shameless court; yet I could not but envy him, for a joyous37 life the rogue38 led. So I, like an old fool, must have my amour; and a pretty intrigue39 I got into with the prim40 damsel Mary! Then a great thought arose in me: men cannot be loyal to utter aliens; their gods must be human on one side, divine on the other; my own people were always deserting me to pay homage41 to bastard42 deities43. I would adopt you as my own son (between ourselves, I have never been sure of the paternity), and admit you to a share in the government. Those infernal Jews killed you, but the son of a God could not die; you came up hither to dwell with me; I the old absolute king, you the modern tribune of the people. Here you have been ever since; and I don’t mind telling you that you were a much more loveable character below there as the man Jesus than you have proved above here as the Lord Christ. As some one was needed on earth to superintend the executive, we created the Comforter, prince royal and plenipotentiary; and behold45 us a divine triumvirate! The new blood was, I must own, beneficial. We lost Jerusalem, but we won Rome; Jove, Neptune46, Apollo, Bacchus, and the rest, were conquered and slain47; our leader of the opposition48 ejected Pluto49 and Pan. Only I did not bargain that my mistress should more than succeed to Juno, who was, at any rate, a lawful50 wife. You announced that our empire was peace; you announced likewise that it was war; both have served us. Our power extended, our glory rose; the chief of a miserable tribe has become emperor of Europe. But our empire was to be the whole world; yet instead of signs of more dominion51, I see signs that what we have is falling to pieces. From my youth up I have been a man of war; and now that I am old and weary and wealthy, and want peace, peace flies from me. Have we not shed enough blood? Have we not caused enough tears? Have we not kindled52 enough fires? And in my empire what am I? Yourself and my mistress share all the power between you; I am but a name at the head of our proclamations. I have been a man of war, I am setting old and worn out, evil days are at hand, and I have never enjoyed life; therefore is my soul vexed53 within me. And my own subjects are as strangers. Your darling saints I cannot bear. The whimpering, simpering, canting, chanting blockheads! You were always happy in a pious55 miserableness56, and you do not foresee the end. Do you know that in spite of our vast possessions we are as near bankruptcy57 as Spain or Austria? Do you know that our innumerable armies are a Chinese rabble58 of cowards and traitors59? Do you know that our legitimacy60 (even if yours were certain) will soon avail us as little as that of the Bourbons has availed them? Of these things you are ignorant: you are so deafened61 with shouts and songs in your own praise that you never catch a whisper of doom62. I would not quail63 if I had youth to cope with circumstance; none can say honestly that I ever feared a foe64; but I am so weak that often I could not walk without leaning on you. Why did I draw out my life to this ignominious65 end? Why did I not fall fighting like the enemies I overcame? Why the devil did you get born at all, and then murdered by those rascally66 Jews, that I who was a warrior67 should turn into a snivelling saint? The heroes of Asgard have sunk into a deeper twilight68 than they foresaw; but their sunset, fervent69 and crimson70 with blood and with wine, made splendid that dawnless gloaming. The joyous Olympians have perished, but they all had lived and loved. For me, I have subsisted71 and hated. What of time is left to me I will spend in another fashion. Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” And he swallowed hastily a bumper72 of the wine, which threw him into convulsions of coughing.
Serene73 and superior the son had let the old man run on. “Do not, I entreat74 you, take to drink in your old age, dear father. You say that our enemies lived and loved; but think how unworthy of divine rulers was their mode of life, how immoral76, how imprudent, how disreputable, how savage77, how lustful78, how un-Chris-tian! What a bad example for poor human souls!” “Human souls be blessed! Are they so much improved now?... Would that at least I had conserved79 Jove’s barmaid; the prettiest, pleasantest girl they say (we know you are a Joseph, though you always had three or four women dangling80 about you); fair-ankled was the wench, bright-limbed; she might be unto me even as was Abishag, the Shunammite, unto my old friend David.” “Let us speak seriously, my father, of the great celebration to-morrow.” “And suppose I am speaking very seriously, you solemn prig; not a drop of my blood is there in you.”
Here came a hurried knocking at the door, and the angelic ministers of state crawled in, with super-elaborate oriental cringings, to deliver their daily reports. “Messages from Brahma, Ormuzd, etc., to congratulate on the son’s birthday.” “The infidels! the mockers!” muttered the son. “Good words,” said the father; “they belong to older families than ours, my lad, and were once much more powerful. You are always trying to win over the parvenus81.” “A riot in the holy city. The black angels organised to look after the souls of converted negroes having a free fight with some of the white ones. My poor lambs!” sighed the son. “Black sheep,” growled83 the father; “what is the row?” “They have plumed84 themselves brighter than peacocks, and scream louder than parrots; claim precedence over the angels of the mean whites; insist on having some of their own hymns85 and tunes86 in the programme of to-morrow’s concert.” “Lock’em all up, white and black, especially the black, till Tuesday morning; they can fight it out then—it’s Boxing Day. Well have quite enough noise to-morrow without ’em. Never understood the nigger question, for my part: was a slave-holder myself, and cursed Ham as much as pork.” “New saints grumbling87 about lack of civilised accommodation: want underground railways, steamers for the crystal sea, telegraph wires to every mansion88, morning and evening newspapers, etc., etc,; have had a public meeting with a Yankee saint in the chair, and resolved that heaven is altogether behind the age.” “Confound it, my son, have I not charged you again and again to get some saints of ability up here? For years past every batch89 has been full of good-for-nothing noodles. Have we no engineers, no editors at all.” “One or two engineers, we believe, sire, but we can’t find a single editor.” “Give one of the Record fellows the measles90, and an old l’Univers hand the cholera91, and bring them up into glory at once, and we’ll have two daily papers. And while you are about it, see whether you can discover three or four pious engineers—not muffs, mind—and blow them up hither with their own boilers92, or in any other handy way. Haste, haste, post haste!” “Deplorable catastrophe93 in the temple of the New Jerusalem: a large part of the foundation given way, main wall fallen, several hundred workmen bruised94.” “Stop that fellow who just left; countermand95 the measles, the cholera will be enough; we will only have one journal, and that must be strictly96 official. If we have two, one will be opposition. Hush97 up the accident. It is strange that Pandemonium98 was built so much better and more quickly than our New Jerusalem!” “All our best architects and other artists have deserted99 into Elysium, my lord; so fond of the company of the old Greeks.”
When these and many other sad reports had been heard, and the various ministers and secretaries savagely100 dismissed, the father turned to the son and said: “Did I not tell you of the evil state we are in?” “By hope and faith and charity, and the sublime22 doctrine101 of self-renunciation, all will yet come right, my father.” “Humph! let hope fill my treasury102, and faith finish the New Jerusalem, and charity give us peace and quietness, and self-renunciation lead three-quarters of your new-fangled saints out of heaven; and then I shall look to have a little comfort.” “Will you settle to-morrow’s programme, sire? or shall I do my best to spare you the trouble?” “You do your best to spare me the trouble of reigning103 altogether, I think. What programme can there be but the old rehearsal104 for the eternal life (I wish you may get it)? O, that horrible slippery sea of glass, that bedevilled throne vomiting105 thunders and lightning, those stupid senile elders in white nightgowns, those four hideous106 beasts full of eyes, that impossible lamb with seven horns and one eye to each horn! O, the terrific shoutings and harpings and stifling107 incense108! A pretty set-out for my time of life I And to think that you hope some time or other to begin this sort of thing as a daily amusement, and to carry it on for ever and ever! Not much appearance of its beginning soon, thank goodness—that is to say,, thank badness. Why can’t you have a play of Aristophanes, or Shakespeare, or Molière? Why should I meddle109 with the programme? I had nothing to do with first framing it. Besides, it is all in your honor, not in mine. You like playing the part of the Lamb; I’m much more like an old wolf. You are ravished when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks; as for me, I am utterly sick of them. Behold what I will do; I must countenance110 the affair, but I can do so without disturbing myself. I’ll not go thundering and roaring in my state-carriage of the whirlwind; I’ll slip there in a quiet cloud. You can’t do without my glory, but it really is too heavy for my aged35 shoulders; you may lay it upon the throne; it will look just as well. As for my speech, here it is all ready written out; let Mercury, I mean Raphael or Uriel, read it; I can’t speak plainly since I lost so many teeth. And now I consider the matter, what need is there for my actual presence at all? Have me there in effigy111; a noble and handsome dummy112 can wear the glory with grace* Mind you have a handsome one; I wish all the artists had not deserted us. Your pious fellows make sad work of us, my son. But then their usual models are so ugly; your saints have good reason to speak of their vile113 bodies. How is it that all the pretty girls slip away to the other place, poor darlings? By the bye, who are going on this occasion to represent the twelve times twelve thousand of the tribes of Israel? Is the boy Mortara dead yet? He will make one real Jew.” “We are converting them, sire.” “Not the whole gross of thousands yet, I trust? Faugh! what a greasy114 stench there would be—what a blazing of Jew jewelry115!
“Hand me the latest bluebook, with the reports....
“Ah, I see; great success! Power of the Lord Christ! (always you, of course). Society flourishing. Eighty-two thousand pounds four shillings and twopence three-farthings last year from Christians116 aroused to the claims of the lost sheep of the House of Israel. (Very good.) Five conversions118!! Three others have already been persuaded to eat pork sausages. (Better and better.) One, who drank most fervently119 of the communion wine suffered himself to be treated to an oyster120 supper. Another, being greatly moved, was heard to ejaculate, ‘O, Christ!’... Hum, who are the five? Moses Isaacs: wasn’t he a Christian117 ten years ago in Italy, and afterwards a Mahommedan in Salonica, and afterwards a Jew in Marseilles? This Mussulman is your oyster-man, I presume? You will soon get the one hundred and forty-four thousand at this rate, my son! and cheap too!”
He chuckled121, and poured out another glass of Lachryma Christi; drank it, made a wry122 face, and then began coughing furiously. “Poor drink this for a god in his old age. Odin and Jupiter fared better. Though decent for a human tipple123, for a divinity it is but ambrosie stygiale, as my dear old favorite chaplain would call it. I have his devotional works under lock and key there in my desk. Apropos124, where is he? Left us again for a scurry125 through the more jovial126 regions? I have not seen him for a long time.” “My father! really, the words he used, the life he led; so corrupting127 for the young saints! We were forced to invite him to travel a little for the benefit of his health. The court must be kept pure, you know.” “Send for him instantly, sir. He is out of favor because he likes the old man and laughs at your saints, because he can’t cant54 and loves to humbug128 the humbugs129. Many a fit of the blues130 has he cured for me, while you only make them bluer. Have him fetched at once. O, I know you never liked him; you always thought him laughing at your sweet pale face and woebegone airs, laughing ‘en horrible sarcasm131 et sanglante derision’ (what a style the rogue has! what makes that of your favorite parsons and holy ones so flaccid and flabby and hectic132?) ‘Physician, heal thyself!’ So, in plain words, you have banished133 him; the only jolly soul left amongst us, my pearl and diamond and red ruby134 of Chaplains, abstracter of the quintessence of pantagruelism! The words he used! I musn’t speak freely myself now, and the old books I wrote are a great deal too coarse for you Michael and Gabriel told me the other day that they had just been severely135 lectured on the earnestness of life by one of your new protégés; they had to kick him howling into limbo136. A fine set of solemn prigs we are getting!” “My father, the holiness of sorrow, the infiniteness of suffering!” “Yes, yes, I know all about it. That long-winded poet of yours (he does an ode for you to-morrow?) began to sermonise me thereon. By Jupiter, he wanted to arouse me to a sense of my inner being and responsibilities and so forth137. I very soon packed him off to the infant school where he teaches the alphabet and catechism to the babies and sucklings. Have you sent for my jovial, joyous, jolly Curé of Meudon?” “I have; but I deeply regret that your Majesty138 thinks it fitting to be intimate with such a free-liver, such a glutton139 and wine-bibber and mocker and buffoon140.” “Bah! you patronised the publicans and sinners yourself in your younger and better days. The strict ones blamed you for going about eating and drinking so much. I hear that some of your newest favorites object to the wine in your last supper, and are going to insist on vinegar-and-water in future.”
Whereupon entered a man of a noble and courtly presence, lively-eyed and golden bearded, ruddy complexioned141, clear-browed, thoughtful, yet joyous, serene and unabashed. “Welcome, thrice welcome, my beloved Alcofribas!” cried the old monarch142; “very long is it since last I saw you.” “I have been exiled since then, your Majesty.” “And I knew nothing of it!” “And thought nothing of it or of me until you wanted me. No one expects the King to have knowledge of what is passing under his eyes.” “And how did you manage to exist in exile, my poor chaplain?” “Much better than here at court, sire. If your Majesty wants a little pleasure, I advise you to get banished yourself. Your parasites143 and sycophants144 and courtiers are a most morose145, miserable, ugly, detestable, intolerable swarm146 of blind beetles147 and wasps148; the devils are beyond comparison better company.” “What! you have been mixing with traitors?” “Oh, I spent a few years in Elysium, but didn’t this time go into the lower circles. But while I sojourned as a country gentleman on the heavenly borders, I met a few contrabandists. I need not tell you that large, yea, enormous quantities of beatitude are smuggled149 out of your dominions150.” “But what is smuggled in?” “Sire, I am not an informer; I never received anything out of the secret-service money. The poor angels are glad to run a venture at odd times, to relieve the tedium151 of everlasting Te Deum. By the bye, I saw the Devil himself.” “The Devil in my kingdom! What is Uriel about? he’ll have to be superannuated152.” “Bah! your Majesty knows very well that Satan comes in and returns as and when he likes. The passport system never stops the really dangerous fellows. When he honored me with a call he looked the demurest young saint, and I laughed till I got the lockjaw at his earnest and spiritual discourse153. He would have taken yourself in, much more Uriel. You really ought to get him on the list of court chaplains. He and I were always good friends, so if anything happens.... It may be well for you if you can disguise yourself as cleverly as he. A revolution is not quite impossible, you know.” The Son threw up his hands in pious horror; the old King, in one of his spasms154 of rage, hurled155 the blue-book at the speaker’s head, which it missed, but knocked down and broke his favorite crucifix. “Jewcy fiction versus156 crucifixion, sire; magna est veritas et prevalebit! Thank Heaven, all that folly157 is out*side my brains; it is not the first book full of cant and lies and stupidity that has been flung at me. Why did you not let me finish? The Devil is no fonder than your sacred self of the new opinions; in spite of the proverb, he loves and dotes upon holy water. If you cease to be head of the ministry158, he ceases to be head of the opposition; he wouldn’t mind a change, an innings for him and an outings for you; but these latest radicals159 want to crush both Whigs and Tories. He was on his way to confer with some of your Privy160 Council, to organise82 joint161 action for the suppression of new ideas. You had better be frank and friendly with him. Public opposition and private amity162 are perfectly163 consistent and praiseworthy. He has done you good service before now; and you and your Son have always been of the greatest assistance to him.” “By the temptation of Job! I must see to it. And now no more business. I am hipped, my Rabelais; we must have a spree. The cestus of Venus, the lute44 of Apollo, we never could find; but there was sweeter loot in the sack of Olympus, and our cellars are not yet quite empty. We will have a *petit souper of ambrosia164 and nectar.” “My father! my father! did you not sign the pledge to abstain165 from these heathen stimulants166?” “My beloved Son, with whom I am not at all well pleased, go and swill167 water till you get the dropsy, and permit me to do as I like. No wonder people think that I am failing when my child and my mistress rule for me!”
The Son went out, shaking his head, beating his breast, scrubbing his eyes, wringing168 his hands, sobbing169 and murmuring piteously. “The poor old God! my dear old father! Ah, how he is breaking! Alack, he will not last long! Verily, his wits are leaving him! Many misfortunes and disasters would be spared us were he to abdicate170 prudently171 at once. Or a regency might do. But the evil speakers and slanderers would say that I am ambitious. I must get the matter judiciously172 insinuated173 to the Privy Council. Alack! alack!”
“Let him go and try on his suit of lamb’s wool for to-morrow,” said the old monarch. “I have got out of the rehearsal, my friend; I shall be conspicuous174 by my absence; there will be a dummy in my stead.” “Rather perilous175 innovation, my Lord; the people may think that the dummy does just as well, that there is no need to support the original.” “Shut up, shut up, O, my Curé; no more politics, confound our politics! It is Sunday, so we must have none but chaplains here. You may fetch Friar John and sweet Dean Swift and the amiable176 parson Sterne, and any other godly and devout177 and spiritual ministers you can lay hold of; but don’t bring more than a pleiad.” “With Swift for the lost one; he is cooling his ‘s?va indignatio’ in the Devil’s kitchen-furnace just now, comforting poor Addison, who hasn’t got quit for his death-bed brandy yet.” “A night of devotion will we have, and of inextinguishable laughter; and with the old liquor we will pour out the old libations. Yea, Gargantuan178 shall be the feast; and this night, and to-morrow, and all next week, and twelve days into the new year the hours shall reel and roar with Pantagruelism. Quick, for the guests, and I will order the banquet!” “With all my heart, sire, will I do this very thing. Parsons and pastors179, pious and devout, will I lead back, choice and most elect souls worthy75 of the old drink delectable180. And I will lock and double bolt the door, and first warm the chamber by burning all these devilish books; and will leave word with the angel on guard that we are not to be called for three times seven days, when all these Christmas fooleries and mummeries are long over. Amen. Selah. Au revoir. Tarry till I come.”
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115 jewelry | |
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162 amity | |
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170 abdicate | |
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171 prudently | |
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175 perilous | |
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176 amiable | |
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177 devout | |
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