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21 Mar 03 - 01:50 PM (#915475) Subject: Song of the Day From: outfidel Down by the Riverside |
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21 Mar 03 - 02:09 PM (#915492) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: GUEST think this one suits it better.... song of revolution |
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21 Mar 03 - 02:15 PM (#915496) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: Dead Horse Far more appropriate:- ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS |
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21 Mar 03 - 02:27 PM (#915501) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: Gareth No Dead 'Orse try this - Click 'Ere Gareth |
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21 Mar 03 - 02:27 PM (#915502) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: GUEST,clint keller Who Would Jesus Bomb? ck |
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21 Mar 03 - 03:11 PM (#915533) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: sadie damascus How about this one? (if anyone has graced Byron's verse with a tune, I don't know of it, but as a chant it has the ability to create horse hoofbeats and choruses wailing in your mind) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail: And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon, Lord Byron |
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21 Mar 03 - 06:16 PM (#915682) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: Deda Here's another one. |
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21 Mar 03 - 06:21 PM (#915688) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: michaelr Sadie -- what's the name of that poem? It's awesome! Cheers, Michael |
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22 Mar 03 - 01:04 AM (#915865) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: sadie damascus Oh -- I'm sorry. I believe it's "The Destruction of Sennacherib", by Lord Byron. Please permit me a tiny history lesson with fascinating modern overtones: The Assyrians of today are descendants of the ancient Assyrian people who built the mighty empires of Assyria and Babylonia. Their capital, Nineveh (6000 BC--1500 AD or thereabouts), was near the modern northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Sennacherib was king of the Assyrians in about 700 BC. He conquered the cities of Judah and laid siege to Jerusalem; his records* say he won, and collected fabulous tribute, but the Hebrew Bible (2 Chronicles 32) says his soldiers "spoke of the God of Israel as though he were one of the gods of the other peoples of the earth, a work of human hands....because of this...the Lord sent an angel, who destroyed every valiant warrior, leader and commander in the camp of the Assyrian king," (185,000 men, reportedly), so that he had to return shamefaced to his own country. And when he entered the temple of his own god, two of his own sons struck him down there with the sword. *(p://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/701sennach.html). |
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22 Mar 03 - 06:27 PM (#916208) Subject: RE: Song of the Day From: Janice in NJ So Long, Mom, I'm Off to Drop the Bomb by Tom Lehrer. |