Canto III: The Marooning
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Back to the Island of Tortuga they go
Back to the land that had started their woes.
Sailing a ship that was beaten and torn
Still by the wind to the island they're born.
Readying rebels for prisons so cold
Down where forever they'll surely abode.
Many the days they did sail on the sea
Finally off to the stern did they see
Port of the isle so wretched and vile
Churning their stomach and raising their bile.
Slowly they inch to the docks and the shore
Readying hearts to now finish the chore.
Taking their prisoners they leave from the dock
Down to the dungeons where fiends will be locked
Long for their crime and their mutinous ways
Perhaps for rest of their natural days.
Quick to the constable sailors now go
Hoping to lead them to deepest of woe.
Seeing the governor Jean now does speak
Telling the man of the mischief they reeked.
Asking that traitors be chained in their cells
Down in the dungeons forever to dwell.
Speaking he tells of the woes they had brought
Hoping they'll languish for crimes they had wrought.
"These men are fiends and rebels through and through
Possessing hearts where only hatreds grew.
This voyage great's too weak to take these men.
Who far too quickly give their hearts to sin."
I bid you take them down to dungeons deep
To bind them tight and souls forever keep."
Nodding the governor bids them though dumb
Following man like he's Chiron they come.
Swiftly they leave to where prisoners stay
Down in the depths where the wretched now lay.
Quickly from streets they are secreted fast
Down to the room that the darkness does clasp.
Wails of the damned and the cries of the doomed
Issue from dungeons so heavy with gloom.
Step by a step they now downward do plunge
Down to their punishment rebels now lunge.
Greater and greater their dread does now grow
Fearing the end of the fate they had sown.
Diable now hoping that doom he'll avoid
Launches a plan that's subversive and coy.
Thinking he's wise he does turn to his foe
Still as they downward to dungeons are strode.
Tempting his captor with wits and with wiles
Hoping to gain him with bribes that are vile.
"Pleasures bound in world above
Food so sweet and wine so fine
Kept for those with little love
Kept for those with darkest minds.
Let me lose and follow me
Down the path that's paved with sin
Pleasure's rebels highest fee
All that's good in world you'll win."
Quick to the words of the fiend he does speak
Lest his own silence's mistaken as weak
Sure, in his words and still bold in his voice
Speaking his peace reaffirming his choice.
Telling him words that his savior had spoke
Speaking them just as Apostles had wrote.
"But men don't live on bread and bread alone
But feast on words of God whose son atones.
For souls have cravings higher still than flesh,
And living water's known to sate them best."
Silence now reigned as they further did go
Closer to Diable's well deserved woe.
Thinking of way he may stall his own doom
Dreading the prison that acted as tomb.
Quickly he offers another attempt
Hoping that heart of the sailor he'll tempt.
"Powers reign in world of men
Earthly wealth on oceans tides.
Easy claimed by those who sin
Claimed by thieves who plot and hide.
Prince of men will Jean yet be
Led by Diable's cunning hand
Ruling all the seven seas
King of oceans along with lands.
Just be bent before my might
Will your soul to hand of fiend.
Lose your honor take your right
Gain your crown by bending knee."
Yielding not soul to the hand of the fiend
Speaking so swiftly his woe he does bring.
Neither to bribe or to power he'll give
Long as he roams where a mortal does live.
Speaking in haste he refuses his grant
Soul for the price of the world is too scant.
"My God alone I'll worship bending knee
As king of kings demands as servants fee.
No profits made on world if soul is lost
For all the goods on earth don't cover cost.
The price too high for wealth that men have wrought
For soul by blood of God's been justly bought."
Growing in anger the rebel does cry
Bidding the sailor to swiftly now die.
Filled with a rage that is rolling like sea
Asking for death of his captor as fee.
Raging and pulling at chains does he speak
Hoping that mischief the rebel may reek.
"Toss yourself to floor of stairs!
Prove your faith to fellow men
Will of God I bid you dare
Ask your Lord to angels send!
Surely God will hear your cry
Surely God will hear your plea
God won't let such servant die!
Show us all so men may see!"
Giving not self to the test of the fiend
Speaking so quickly his silence he brings.
"It's written serf the lord should never test,
But hope and pray and know his will is best.
So, hold your tongue I'll never change my path
Nor yield my faith to petty mortal wrath."
Finally, third of temptations is spoke
Will of the sailor it's failed to have broke.
Reaching the final and ninth of the layers
Down in the dungeons own deepest of lair.
Governor stood and then bids them to chain
All of the rebels to deepen their pain.
Quickly they go to the work they were ask
Binding the traitors, the action they're tasked.
After they're finished, they leave from the keep
Jean is the last to now flee from the deep.
Turning to go he does stop and then speaks
Hoping that spite on the souls will be reeked.
"Repent not, curse the men who fought your will
Repent not, let your anger stew and swill!
And lie here hating men who stopped your course
By beating back your wretched rebel force!
Now poison heart with hatred deep and wild
Impotent rage will make this place more vile!
Repent not, sins will add to weight of chains
Repent not, fury great will bring you pain!"
Turning he left them to mercy of thought
Greater a punishment's never been wrought.
Leaving for ship with his crew at his side
Back to the place where the captain abides.
Knowing his duty does lie on the deck
Helping the sailors with fixing the wreck.
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