| Show Iwo IMM4 Tw famous klol ono day together met On Time highway and stopped In lave a chit I They bowed shook hinds and wished each oilier well i Then each In turn a direful tile did tell i Said War to llacchus Wend no doubt youe licard That ere the earth for man had been prepared 1 Along the sons of God in I yonder world My cannons boomed my sable flags unfurled And wllh my rnlcbiy weapons bar and bright Drove from the field fie rebel sons of 1 b So thus by senior right the place ii mine The first to speak the place lo hearken thine Say 00 Pay BAcchus but bo brief for 1 Bake Lt to go and night Is I draalg nigh The King of War Ms knapsack laid aside And straiRlitribilf 1 with airs I 01 kingly pride I I thus began IIVO thousand years or more Ive I stalked the earth in quest of human gore I low 10 succeeded let time annals tell And fell bloody Id where mangled millions Ive dragged the bridegroom from Ins virgin bride I vo slam the Infant at its mothers side Ive made the husband beg to spire Ms I life For like of helpless link ono and wife Jvo 1 struck him down till on Ventics sodoe And stale I his longb while Ibu I pleading spoke I I ve swelled the rivers with a crimson flood i And stained old Ocean bicil with human I Hood Kings queens And crapr ° from their thrones I Jvo hurled i I And spread destruction oer st kleeping world f g oo I In nh it yr I h Iva t cell knelt it to waste hlom than by centuries could be replaced I i 1d 1 made fond Iu sons i the pride of father mother I Meet on the battle lid I and slay each other In short tile ball Ivc caused of m6ery Will ne er be known until the Judgment diy I My time Is lip friend Bacchus f im ihrough 11 So its In order now to hear train you Loquacious n icclius row ilia hag4ard we Aol l blear eyes devoid r plly s luce Down In the dirt Ins old stand hit lie threw And from his pouch a big old kla drew Look here slid t he tun looks a simple thing i I But trouble more thin War did ever I tiring I 1 his potent Huff h is brought Into the wnil fit IAn I I ptnt Anil I myriad headlong to destruction hurled You talk il 1 brother slaying brother why I That s nothing to the horrid dds that 1 I I live done end now tell aomg night and day I Why I call make n SOl his mother stay And 1 Inner too or drag hit wile from bed And till a htbo delve her tender bond bo-nd see her die In ngonv then tike Hr I little ones now startled andakc And beat Ihelr brains out with a club and then Go back to toted oer his 1 cups ngln I doubt rolt King that thou hast done thy share To scourge the earth with sorrow and despair Out no er did cannon boom nor tiber Mow Make humankind so wretched here fall lows low-s I lav done 11 Ills been left for me To eap Ibo chn of ma 111ery Ihe madhouse midnight orgies I produce Tu rnurd rcrs doom In pruun cells recluse a Lve daugbers fair t stamp with sin and hhamc I And heap pollution on their honored named Deed inexpressible base for human I hooCh ITo I-To e try age and race my powr his bro cl I As to the haste on sea and land youve slain I know such claims ire n ther War nor vain Hut te me here assure you King of War My list of victims beggars yours by far Once In a while ot course you strike n blow And lay perchance a hundred thousand tow But my sad havoc steady ns the tide Goes on orever sweeping fir f and w lde Will pestilential keep while thousand sad Regret that they existence ever lad Hut Ire 1 see the sun Is I gelling low And a lie both have many allies to go Ill bring my subject to a calc and say Good bye perhaps well meet same other day JAMES I CRVSTAL AIICAN FORK Ja nuy 25tb 897 i |
