False Prophecies

If you prophecy the end of kings you are wrong. Write no epitaphs, dig no graves, taste no grief. The new czar, a rough and worldly killer firmly fixed this very day stirs the cauldron of war to reset empire Still, foxly friends of tyranny, who stab at weak democracy praise the czar's autocracy, and mock free speech with treachery. As modern judases, riding limitless swells of fortune, tease simple mobs our old republic stagers and fades, mortally wounded by hypocrisy. Perhaps, someday, freedom’s autopsy will show what transpired, but if you prophecy the end of kings you are wrong.