As he was recently buried and I have just come across this parody of the Battle Hymn of the Republic that I wrote many years ago I decided to share it.
Parody on the Battle Hymn of the American Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lie;
Bush is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His Lies are marching on.
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I have read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His Death is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:
'As you deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;'
Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel,
Since Bush is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our Lie is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While the Lie is marching on.
We are coming like the glory of the morning on the wave;
We are wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave;
So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of time his slave,
Our Bush is marching on.
Rjn After Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
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why was he not a good guy?
TheDoubter
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He carried on Reagan's anti-gay, turn-a-blind-eye-to-HIV/AIDS, he ran the CIA, and a number of other things.
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