Show How Darius Was Made KIDS Oi tho year four hundred and ninetythree Tho date suffixed with a largo B C Ouubvses the king of Persia was dead Leaving no son to reign in his stead Then seven young men of high degree The noblest of all the nobility Said One of us rightly the king must be One was Darius of royal stock Who afterward on the Bchlstun rock Carved his exploits In a way no doubt lYind an1 weather will never rub out Carved them m truo Assyrian style Angular men ranged In single file Uut which of the seven the crown should wear Was a very undetermined affair However then the same as today Where theres a will theres ever a way And this was tho plan they fixed upon ro mount their horses at break of dawn And ride toward the rising sun And the first that neighed the lider lie Was the one predestined the king to ha So at break of dawn like seven Fates These noblemen at the palace gates Mounted their horses one by one And slowly rode toward tho rising sun Aa they passed along in the array Upon the sun the god of day And ono of tho horses stopped to neigh A well bred horse good morning to say Darius turned pale a natural thing For the neigh of his horse had made him the king Wide Awake |