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So long a time ago was a little city	A
Where violence and crime were deep rooted and thriving	B
And in her bedlam dwelt a pious little lad	C
A child of God who was God fearing and loving	B
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This lad went about the city from dawn till dusk	D
Beseeching all to repent of their evil deeds	E
For wise was he and he knew of the wrath to come	F
But none ever hearkened nor ever gave him heed	G
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At that time a very great king lived far away	H
Righteous was he and greatly feared among all lands	I
For great was his kingdom and his host of armies	J
Men of valour who constitute' a mighty band	K
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News of this little city came to this king ears	L
And at once was his wrath set upon the city	A
To overthrow the land and possess it at once	M
And procure an end to all their iniquity	A
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So the king anon summoned some of his servants	N
To spy the land if perchance some vice they might find	O
With which to justify that of which hath been heard	P
That if it chanced to be false he might change his mind	O
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So this men set out to perform the king's order	Q
Three sagacious men to visit the land to spy	R
And each took along his items for the journey	A
Then with a parting word each bade his kindred bye	R
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The journey lasted three days on three donkeys back	S
And when at last they got to the city's outskirts	T
At even they stopped and pitched their tent and rested	U
Of all their labour and quenched their hunger and thirst	V
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Then afterwards when spirits and souls were revived	W
And the shadow of the night was fast drawing near	X
Two amongst these men arose to begin their quest	Y
While one stayed to fend for the donkeys in his care	Z
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So the duo approached the city on legs that night	A2
And made it within just before the gates were shut	B2
But found no place to pass the night or lay their heads	C2
For the people of the land admitted them not	D2
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Thence did they sleep without a shelter over them	E2
In the cold and wind of a keen wintery weather	Q
And alas the clouds poured heavily in torrents	N
And they both slept cuddled up with one another	Q
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Then at morrow both rose a great while before dawn	F2
And were settled at different parts of the city	A
In guise of a sick beggar and a blind old man	G2
Perhaps if some men would their conditions pity	A
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The sick beggar was settled at a certain street	H2
And in his disguise along the street he did lie	R
In his wet costume with his bowl and a long stick	I2
And shivering fervidly as one about to die	R
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While the blind old man sat along another street	H2
While he leant upon a long stick with his legs crossed With a bowl before him his gaze was bent upwards	J2
And he seemed bat blind as though his sight he'd long lost	K2

Christian Ken Israel

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