the MD poet-laureate
    
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             Opus the 1st Opus the 2nd  | 
        
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             Are You an Easter Feaster?? 
              Easter's coming on your
              scene, Cheerful Chocy Chomping 
 
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            The Mystery of
            The Ages To works most ancient some people will cling, And forgotten "truth" to this world so bring. Discarded knowledge is now brought to light For they are the chosen and they are so right. For the vision has fled the "knowing" and "wise" With dead works must they compromise. A mystery indeed that few will scan "Revealed" by most fallible man. In idol-worship it seems they partake, A musty old work they wish to remake. And would if they could this canonize, A venture uncertain with costs to the skies. Those sixty-six books these people ignore And consult man's burblings with many a flaw. Whose money was spent we keenly enquire? The "tithes" of the laborer who works in the mire. The Lord will provide but they press hard the few, Extorting and stealing their folly to pursue. Their faith may be boundless with plenty of tithe But chop off the money and long will they writhe. Good luck to those who this volume will read, We doubt it will help in their hour of need. And beware of those in the Lord's name who come Test carefully each pastor before giving that sum.  | 
        
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              Conspiracy  | 
          
             
              Ancestral 
              Anomalies
             
            
              Did Brutus come from
              Trojan shore
             
            
                New cities to
                create?
               
              
                And should we thank
                him evermore
               
              
                For stiff-upper lip
                of State?
               
            
              And Roman feet in
              ordered line
             
            
              Tramped on England's
              hills so green.
             
            
              And flagons-ful of
              low-grade wine
             
            
              Brought forth Latin
              verbs obscene.
             
            
              The Saka peoples roamed
              the world
             
            
              By sea and mountain
              pass.
             
            
              And whilst in Scythia
              tents unfurled
             
            
              To inhale their
              vaporized grass.
             
            
              And Salian Franks came
              from Dead Sea,
             
            
              So Greek Philemon
              wrote.
             
            
              Alexander on an
              Afghan spree
             
            
              Punched them up the
              throat.
             
            
              The Goths with knives
              so sharp
             
            
              Created quite a
              din,
             
            
              Skinned Emperor Valens
              for a harp
             
            
              Because catgut was
              too thin?
             
            
              Those Yoti of Central
              Asia
             
            
              Some say became the
              Jutes.
             
            
              And the foe,would it
              amaze yer'
             
            
              Smelt them coming by
              their boots.
             
            
              This day be we more
              refined
             
            
              Forsaking old churlish
              ways?
             
            
              But eating still the
              bacon rind
             
            
              And observing unkosher
              ways.
             
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            The Lost Tribes
            of Israel
             
              The lost tribes of
              Israel, where have they gone,  
              In India's land some
              say they did dwell,  
              The Maurayans,
              Kushansas and others as well,  
              That Saka head gear
              with one point or two  
              Some say that the
              French came from the Dead Sea,  
              And on Crimea's shore
              inscriptions they read  
              The Chakmas people of
              Mizoram so say  
              Some say that the
              Trojans were Hebrews by name,  
              And a Finn most
              specific did Israel claim,  
              Some British contend
              that their race is a tribe  
              And Dan left his name
              in river and place,  
              The Declaration of
              Arbroath from Scotland's stern shore  
              And Bertius from Sweden
              and others likewise  
              Now just who is right,
              whom should we believe?  Happy heresies "Seamus"  | 
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