‘The Long Martyrdom of the South’

April 9^th, a day adorned with many martyrs –

Abbot Hedda of Peterborough,

Abbot Theodore of Crowland,

And dozens of other English monks

Cut asunder by the Viking Danes;

Bishop Desan of Persia with companions

In the hundreds, sentenced by Sapor;

Massylitan Martyrs of northwest Africa,

Honored by saints, Augustine and Bede;

New Martyrs of Lesbos, monks Raphael

And Nicholas, cruelly tortured

By the Turks, the first sawn through the jaw,

The second died at the gruesome sight,

The children Eleni and Irene,

Mistreated and murdered, too:

Eleni beaten fiercely,

Irene lost an arm

And suffocated in a cask

With a fire blazing underneath –

Several more died with them.

On April 9^th hosts of martyrs

Finished their trials and received their crowns

From the Victor over Death, Christ our God.

On April 9^th the Southern people

Began their martyrdom at Appomattox,

A contest not quick like those of others,

But slow and subtle, full of cunning,

As Yankee apostates, devils, demons,

And other swindlers attempt to draw

Dixie’s folk away from the Soul-mender,

The Flesh-healer, her Savior Jesus Christ.

The weight of years presses upon us,

Many have fallen into the traps of temptation,

The desire to give up grows stronger.

But only the athlete who competes

Can win a worthy crown.

The Southron who quits,

Who sits him down to rest,

Who forsakes Christ and his Southern kin,

Will receive a little pleasure now,

But never-ending shame and torment

After his body breathes its last.

Not so the faithful Southron,

Who will suffer and even die

For God and for his fathers,

Suffer so that Dixie may live on,

Make a sacrifice of themselves

As did Maury, Mosby,

Ashby, and Hill.  He will receive

An imperishable crown from the Hand of God,

And an honored place in the Heavenly Southland,

Where all the redeemed of Dixie will gleam

With the Uncreated Light of Christ,

Like the Martyrs of April 9^th,

Like the martyrs of other days and years and lands –

Sharing in their spirit,

They will likewise share in their reward –

Whom they will never tire of praising,

With the Father and the Holy Ghost,

Now and to the ages of ages.  Amen.

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Originally posted at https://identitydixie.com/2024/09/21/recurring-martyrdom/; difficulties accessing the site have prompted us to post the whole thing.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!