By Tom Riley
(In memoriam Robert E. Lee, d. 12 October 1870)
Against civilians Lee would not make war.
The Yankees didn’t follow his example.
On people in the South they rained far more
than just a single helping, hot and ample,
of anguish as instruction. Where they went--
not by mere carelessness, but by intention--
they left a waste no heart could circumvent.
The details are too monstrous here to mention.
Oh, and they won! The Union! Hip, hurray!
Still dignified, the General surrendered.
The pattern was established, I would say,
for future forays that the Empire tendered.
The undiscriminating bombs today fall loud.
Of them the Yankee nation waxes proud.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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