King Cyrus the Great

KING CYRUS THE GREAT So; here comes the story of that King Cyrus the Great Whose history for some of us is still well up for debate But; it’s such a darn good story, it well deserves a rate King Cyrus born 601 BC, to give us all a historical date Under some weird strange circumstances, one may say Because; his grandpa had a prediction one strange day Where he sees, the now King Cyrus, rise up against him Poor old Cyrus, a child yet to be born, was now bad jinn So the old grandpa; Astyages, in fear hatches up a plan And orders Mandane' his pregnant daughter off his land And gives Harpagus instructions to kill the child at birth Who in his distaste, or laziness, was not, to full of mirth So passing the task onto shepherd Mithradates, no less Who passes, his own stillborn, onto Astyages in distress Mithradates; then rears, the young Cyrus up as his own As to everyone else; the secret kept to others unknown That was until a King is King no matter what Cyrus rose 10 years old, a nobleman son, in a game did he oppose This was just unknown for a mere shepherd’s son to do Cyrus Dad, Mithradates, was called, with no further ado Who as confesses; to the changeover, of Cyrus at birth Which rages King Astyages into doing something worse Young Cyrus was sent home to be with his true parents Whilst on poor Harpagus; revenge was as now hell sent King Astyages had Harpagus son killed and then cooked Then; unknowing to Harpagus fed, to bring him to book The only good thing this story is supposed to be a myth Revenge is sort later, as with Astyages’s last deadly kiss So Astyahes; had Harpagus lead against Cyrus's troops Harpagus as defected, another of Astyahes, little boops Cyrus; as predicted, rose up against Astyages, and won But being a strange one, King Cyrus was yet to be done Spares his old grandpa and shook hands than slaughter We are friends, and then promptly married his daughter Which means in effect; he married, one of his own aunts By doing so the King Cyrus, is more than a smarty pants With all kingdoms owned, Cyrus, owned some prime lots But was King Cyrus, ever really happy with all he has got As Babylonia here really deserves a well worthy mention As to religious divides were never his malicious intention Even allowed the Jews to go home and build their temple Then showing religious intolerance with his own example If there was ever a myth, then this had to be the greatest Those Jews surely deserved a BAFTA, as I heard the latest As didn’t they turn up with a scroll, & say Cyrus look here Was written 170 years ago, and look, your name appears After all you have done, it was all by our God’s command You were nuffin’, but his tool, I hope you can understand Anything that took acknowledgement from Cyrus, himself Who built his empire on his own credit, as his own stealth Cyrus in his worth had created as something on this earth That far excessed God, than his jumped up plans of mirth He created the as garden of Paradise in his own backyard Did well by all accounts, it on God it must have been hard As his Garden of Eden fell apart before it even got started It must have left God, a mere more than down heartened Decided to put a claim on Pasargadae, as if, his own work By getting it added into his storyline by some Jewish clerk Cyrus. ruled the biggest empire, ever known in the world And to all religions under his rule were happy to preserve He also wanted control of Egypt, but we will never know As Cyrus died, so his quest for Egypt, became a no show Indiana Shaw . . . : )