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| -Land of the Free |
| Macdonough’s Song |
| 2015-11-11 |
| Rudyard Kipling WHETHER the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well as on Earth: If it be wiser to kill mankind Before or after the birth— These are matters of high concern Where State-kept schoolmen are; But Holy State (we have lived to learn) Endeth in Holy War. Whether The People be led by The Lord, Or lured by the loudest throat: If it be quicker to die by the sword Or cheaper to die by vote— These are things we have dealt with once, (And they will not rise from their grave) For Holy People, however it runs, Endeth in wholly Slave. Whatsoever, for any cause, Seeketh to take or give, Power above or beyond the Laws, Suffer it not to live! Holy State or Holy King— Or Holy People’s Will— Have no truck with the senseless thing. Order the guns and kill! Saying—after—me:— Once there was The People—Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth. Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain! Once there was The People—it shall never be again! |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Kipling. While the world learns to tablet angry turds and be zzoulanders, Mine have paper in hand learning to read, understand. Sure we are not entering the age of clay? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-11-11 11:08 |
| #1 That's, hopefully, the future. "The City of Brass" is the present. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-11 01:49 |