THE HIGHER BARBARISM

Submitted by AWL on 29 July, 2008 - 2:42 Author: Sean Matgamna

THE HIGHER BARBARISM
Barbarians at the gate,
Civilised folk within:

Rabble pull down the great,
Mankind begins again:
That's how it used to be.

Barbarians at the top,
The civiliser's rise
Brought to a needless stop
By people rich and wise:
That's how it is today.

The outcasts drained the swamp,
Built social aqueducts;
The rich on the poor now stomp,
On life charge usufructs;
That's how it is for now.

Our world is upside down,
Out of kilter, out of sense;
God is a witless clown
And Clio* far too dense:
But that won't allways be.

We will rise again:
Civilisation yet will win!

* The goddess of History

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