Robert William Service - God's Skallywags lyrics

The God of Scribes looked down and saw The bitter band of seven, Who had outraged his holy law And lost their hope of Heaven: Came Villon, petty thief and pimp, And obscene Baudelaire, And Byron with his letcher limp, And Poe with starry stare. And Wilde who lived his hell on earth, And Burns, the baudy bard, And Francis Thompson, from his birth Malevolently starred. . . . As like a line of livid ghosts They started to paradise, The galaxy of Heaven's hosts Looked down in soft surmise. Said God: "You ba*tards of my love, You are my chosen sons; Come, I will set you high above These merely holy ones. Your sins you've paid in gall and grief, So to these radiant skies, Seducer, drunkard, dopester, thief, Immortally arise. I am your Father, fond and just, And all your folly see; Your beastiality and lust I also know in me. You did the task I gave to you . . . Arise and sit beside My Son, the best beloved, who Was also crucified.