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This 19th. century painting by Checa depicts the Visigoths charging into Rome
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Aleric The Visigoth
I tell you of a Champion
Back in the days of old
A Mighty Champion, Wild and Free
A Champion .... Brave and Bold
A Visigothic Overlord
and Aleric was his name.
And many were his conquests
and well deserved his fame.
His most magnificent achievement -
A Great Glory, if you please
Was when he conquered Mighty Rome
and brought it to its knees.
Mighty Rome, The All Powerful City
The Cesspit of the World.
Its Grotesquely Evil Entertainments
were regularly unfurled.
So great was their greed for cruelty -
And so twisted their delight
That they kept their Games a'glowing
with Human Candles through the night
So when Aleric the Visigoth
learned of this Earthly Hell
He vowed he would destroy this horror and Destroy it well.
He brought together his 'hordes' of men
Barbarians' one and all
But valiant fighters all of them,
who'd stormed many a city wall.
And they all listened eagerly
as he revealed his plan -
To bring down this edifice of infamy
And they cheered him to a man.
And so they undertook this mighty quest
Through many lands they fought
Until Brave Aleric and his men
Beheld the prize they sought.
'Attack-Attack' the cry rang out
And 'Attack-Attack' they would
And so the streets of Mighty Rome
Became Rivers of Roman blood.
The Roman Legions laid to waste
The Battle fought and won.
The Coliseum brought to ruin -
Its days of torture done.
This happened nearly 1600 years ago
(which may be something that you knew)
Brave Aleric and his Visigoths
Heroes through and Through
Mabjohn 1999
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Queen Mabs Domain
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