A statue falls upon tyranny with great noise! Its echo swaggers, “mission accomplished”… 1 a leader’s sonskilled, a vision most stark, creating, again, a most thickset brilliance; freedom’s clang! 2 Clang went the bell across the world's relief; a governmentinstalled and democracy does bind its roots `round a palm tree. 3 Iraqi born rebellion stares back in disbelief at its darkenedfinal throe. 4 Another leader slain, collateral blue sky leapt, a world wheezing, alive, stunned in death. 5 Road-side bombs doubled, slash, rip, bang! Numbers unfathomable, America’s in trouble. 6 Insurgency rage shrieks strung `round detonation, it’s coming asunder, slash, rip, thunder! Civil war's been rolling a year or more, a rough translation. 7 Quintilis bursting in thirty-five hundred! Caesar Augustus! Clang, tolled the bell across the world as a statue fell upon tyranny...
It begins:
A statue falls upon tyranny
with great noise!
Its echo swaggers,
“mission accomplished”…
1
a leader’s sons killed,
a vision most stark,
creating, again,
a most thickset brilliance;
freedom’s clang!
2
Clang went the bell
across the world's relief;
a government installed
and democracy
does bind its roots
`round a palm tree.
3
Iraqi born rebellion
stares back in disbelief
at its darkened final throe.
4
Another leader slain,
collateral blue sky leapt,
a world wheezing,
alive, stunned in death.
5
Road-side bombs doubled,
slash, rip, bang!
Numbers unfathomable,
America’s in trouble.
6
Insurgency rage shrieks
strung `round detonation,
it’s coming asunder,
slash, rip, thunder!
Civil war's been rolling
a year or more,
a rough translation.
7
Quintilis bursting in
thirty-five hundred!
Caesar Augustus!
Clang, tolled the bell
across the world
as a statue fell
upon tyranny...
It ends.
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