JOHN MILTON

Born on Bread Street
Milton became a Puritan
was no Republican fool
submitted to Cromwell's rule
knew there was a reason to tell
and teach as a Christian poet
why a treasonable Satan
preferred to rebel
in hell and remain in it
rather than in an honorable heaven
Milton believed for us to dwell
in reasonable justice and freedom
of speech, we would be well
he is always a soul
within reach.