May We Remember Thee, O Lord

n the days before the Fall of the Mighty Nation, a man, whom God had blessed with wit and wisdom and faith and good speech did exhort the people of the nation to prayer and called to one and all, and as many who would come, to come and gather in the capital and pray for the people to be restored to remembrance of God, and to honor and service.



2. And behold, many were they that came.

3.  And the gathering was held at the monument of one of their greatest leaders, a man afflicted by sorrows. By the thousands came they, with their families and neighbors, from far and wide, came they, to exhort one another to honor and prayer, for the nation had strayed afar, and was as a ship without its moorings in the face of an evil wind and crashing waves. And the captain, who should be at the helm was asleep, instead, and all the yeomen say, "Peace and Safety and Prosperity."  and there is not.

4. And it came to pass, that the Emperor, The Gelded Child, did play and make merry, alway, even as his people suffered and withered, for their fortunes were lost, and now they were without. And the Emperor heard them not, and dismissed them as 'bitter'.



5. Now the Manipulators of Perception, long ago discarded and now ignored by the people as "truth-tellers," did mock and deride the man who called the people together, and they, having lost all sensibilities, did lie and berate those to whom they were charged to chronicle the days in truth.

6. For what was written about them, that having eyes, they see not, and having ears, they hear not and they believe that if one pretendeth hard enough, it will just all go away.