Maid Mighty In Heaven?

So there were these Mighty being Put Down From Their Seat ten days ago in King’s Chapel, Cambridge.

High in a college stall listening in rapture to Evensong’s 'Magnificat', positioned as always just behind the mellifluous altos, I wondered which Mighty would be next in line for a put-down.

Mubarak put down; Brown and Miliband Senior put down; Blair put down (definitive put-down lurking).

Who could possibly be next? Miliband Junior is not yet sufficiently mighty to be worth putting down. Clegg? Cameron? Buffett? Bono?

Certainly not me, mighty minnow in miniscule pond - though my sins are manifold and many.

Pow! Zap! Out of the yonder, put right down from his 1st Class Air France seat, a gargantua, arguably the most mighty on Earth save Obama (who will be put down sooner or later).

So, courtesy of a hotel maid, the Lord delivers once again on his covenant, perhaps neither unexpectedly nor mysteriously given Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged antecedents.

Maybe it’s nothing to do with the Lord. After all, when hath He ever Exalted The Humble And Meek? Whatever the outcome of DSK’s put-down, the maid is unlikely to receive such beneficence.

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