ANNO DOMINI THE TWO SOULS.

CONTINUATION OF ANNO DOMINI.

I allot to you a single creed: you both shall be re-born, of  Common birth in a Christain land at peace and not war-torn.

 

TWO SOULS.

In other spheres they found no rest, so hovered close to Earth,

And waited for the Grace of God to send re-incarnation;

Waiting his will, they watched a passing pageantry of birth:

Universities spread out apace, in nation after nation,

Gothic churches built with care, to foster Christian lives,

His Holiness and all his train turn commoner to Martyr;

Renaissance came against the monks, cleansed all of hives! 

Crusades end, and Englands' John signs The Magna Carta.

 

They saw gunpowder blast its' way to birth, lit by a  glowing spark,

A spark to light an age of flame which made the whole world quake!         

Saw Englishmen hurry out of France, to flee from Joan of Arc,

Saw grateful Frenchmen bind the girl and burn her at the stake!

 

Then East and West of raging France, the printing press arrived;

Turks stopped moving stealthily, spreading out openly,

Romans sighed and muttered woe as their Empires' echoes died,

New cries were utterd eagerly: "The sea must be made free.

 

Columbus and Magellan sailed, and Europes' realms were shaken.

By news of great discoveries beyond the Spanish Main,

Riches untold! shores rich with gold! New Empires to be taken!

Spain scowled at English claims, England scowled at Spain!

All this and more the two souls saw, ere God seal up,

Their eyes.To open them in a Christian land to live in Christian peace.

Born again in Elizabeths' reign in time for Englands' rise,

To sweep the Spanish from the sea, seizing the golden fleece!

 

What matter if Germany brought to light a Protestant

Reformation?

Outlawing men like Luther there, and warring over  their

Creed?

What mattered a Roman counter-stroke, a Catholic

Counter-Reformation?

 Two souls grew up on English soil, of sturdy English breed....

And one of them in later days, for the pure love of Christ a

True catholic, he clung  hard to Rome and  His Holiness the Pope;

The other one for the love of Christ, was easily enticed,

To the new creed of the Protestant, in which he found  fresh hope; 

At last by chance their paths re-crossed, their love

Gave place to hate;

and God looked down and frowned on them, and pondered on

Their fate.

 

There came a day when one was bound and fastened to a stake,

The Roman watched the f*****s piled, the roaring fire to make,

Fire to consume the Protestant, this renegade hell born rake,

Fire to scorch and fire to burn - and all for Jesu's sake!

The Roman watched his enemy  cough, choke, and slowly bake

But the renegades' friends lurked close at hand, a sweet

Revenge to take;

"The fire that burned our friend," they cried "gave this Roman

Cur a thirst, heres a lake his parched thirst to slake,

This lake shall be his hearse.

They watched with joy the Romish dog in tremblng terror

Quake, when they tortured him and murdered him, and

Tossed him in the lake.

And so two souls again faced God, from death once more awake.

"I have not sinned!" the Roman cried, "Twas all for Jesu's sake!"

 

Again they hovered dismally to await another birth,

Seeing the endless pageantry still streaming oe'r the Earth:

Glorianna, good Queen Bess, the child of bluff King Harry

Riding down to Tilbury to hear Drakes' rolling drum!

Drake, who  saw, Spains' gilded sails and yet found time to Tarry,

 Bowling on Plymouth Hoe, forsooth! He watched the Spaniards come

 

Then joined his force with other men who faced Spains'

Might with smiles, who beat the lofty galleons - small ships,

But greater wiles ,thrashed Spains' Armada all arund the

Coasts of Britains ' Isles, left them smashed on rocky

Shores in aimless splintered piles!

So passed the frightful might of inquisition'd Spain;

So passed the golden Tudor Age, when some men still were sane; 

So came the birth of other things with full pre-natal pain,

So turned men back to re-aquire mark of early Cain.

These two again reborn were loyal but each to different things,

One followed the star of a  Stuart Royal and the Divine right of Kings;

The other  hated other royal pomp, and fought the Kingly might,

Till each had slain the other in a battle for the right!

 

Now Sweden fails, and Russia climbs! A weary climb to power!

Galileo and Newton ushered in a thing called Science;

Religiour war! and trading war! And Prussia blooms to flower !

Revolt in France! The Guillotine! and mobs howl French defiance.

 

 

Louis Sixteen has lost his head and France has lost her majesty!

Spain joins fate with Madame France in the swaying balance

of power!

Howling peasants scream their creed: Liberty, Equality,

Fraternity!

Holland and England huddle close, hour by wondering hour...

 

Eternal conflict seized upon these wandering souls once more,

Cardinal, King or commoner, they always went to war;

They died in revolution, they died to save the law,

They lived and died time after time, as they often did before.

 

The pigrim Fathers sailed away in a cockleshell Mayflower;

America broke the tightened chains of English impositions;

Philosophy and music grew; but the milk of peace grew sour.

Osiris reared his head again with Napoleons' ambition;

Then first to Europe came the pangs of newborn nationalities

A German Empire grew again; Briton smashed Bonaparte;

And in the West a steady stream of forceful personalities,

Built order out of civil war, saw slavery depart,

Depart in name, but not in deed, not in the harsh realities-

A rose by another name smells sweet, but not a serf at heart.

 

Reaction came with steam and steal; Man was his own Pyysician;

The pace of  transport speeded up; men turned from superstition;

Hygeine and social studies were a vogue for  opposition;

The final miracle was , when man - become an Electrician!

Perfected engines gave man wings for the conquest of the air;

Huge floating ships increased their speed and conquered every sea;

Travel on land at growing speed was common everywhere;

And factory vied with factory in productive rivalry.

 

Arms kings joined the human race, war came to end all war,

Four years of horror came and went, and left mankind afraid;

That war to end the plague of war would stay for evermore;

So fevered preparations for the next few years were made....

German and Russian Empires gone; new nations bring dissention;

Economic unrest in all; Osiris in Dictators;

Small braggarts c**k their snooks at jeer at peace conventions;

The whole world turns to lunacy, - no room for mere spectators!

 

Chance after chance, life after life, God gave those warring souls,

They met and fought in every land, between the farthest poles;

They saw all things beneath the Sun, and learned full many things,

Yet never knew the perfect love, that conquers foolish strife;

Sweet reasion if  applied by each, would earn them Angel's wings.

But they liked to fight, and liked to kill, with gun and gas and knife.

 

Ceaseless repetition palled, became complete rapport:

"Well change our names to Anti-Christ and horrid Lunacy,-

As discarnate spirits bend Mankind to our support!"

Happy at last, the two souls joined to fulfill their destiny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I enjoyed the story. I loved to study history. Religion and land is the cause of most wars in the history of this world. You touched on many subjects. The world have been controlled by fear and greed for 5000 years. Thank you for writing a detailed history of the past. A outstanding story.
Coyote

[Bubo]

An intricate history lesson that flows and flows, you should teach, because you have such power as a writer and a voice that travels long after the reader has stopped reading.This is outstanding, truly, with vast thoughts and history, wonderful.

[patricia]

That was a fantastic work of art. I marvel at your knowledge. The way you have crafted all this together is amazing. Thankyou. I am shelving this.