{"id":7366,"date":"2012-03-17T06:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2012-09-26T06:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:08:52","slug":"the-rhyme-of-time-bobby-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7366","title":{"rendered":"The Rhyme of Time – Bobby Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rhyme of Time<\/strong>
\nBobby Sans<\/p>\n

There’s an inner thing in every man,
\nDo you know this thing my friend?
\nIt has withstood the blows of a million years,
\nAnd will do so to the end.<\/p>\n

It was born when time did not exist,
\nAnd it grew up out of life,
\nIt cut down evil’s strangling vines,
\nLike a slashing searing knife.<\/p>\n

It lit fires when fires were not,
\nAnd burnt the mind of man,
\nTempering leandened hearts to steel,
\nFrom the time that time began.<\/p>\n

It wept by the waters of Babylon,
\nAnd when all men were a loss,
\nIt screeched in writhing agony,
\nAnd it hung bleeding from the Cross.<\/p>\n

It died in Rome by lion and sword,
\nAnd in defiant cruel array,
\nWhen the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
\nAlong the Appian Way.<\/p>\n

It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
\nAnd frightened lord and king,
\nAnd it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
\nAs e’er a living thing.<\/p>\n

It smiled in holy innocence,
\nBefore conquistadors of old,
\nSo meek and tame and unaware,
\nOf the deathly power of gold.<\/p>\n

It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
\nAnd stormed the old Bastille,
\nAnd marched upon the serpent’s head,
\nAnd crushed it ‘neath its heel.<\/p>\n

It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
\nAnd starved by moons of rain,
\nIts heart was buried at Wounded Knee,
\nBut it will come to rise again.<\/p>\n

It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
\nAs it was knelt upon the ground,
\nAnd it died in great defiance,
\nAs they coldly shot it down.<\/p>\n

It is found in every light of hope,
\nIt knows no bounds nor space
\nIt has risen in red and black and white,
\nIt is there in every race.<\/p>\n

It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
\nIt screams in tyrants’ eyes,
\nIt has reached the peak of mountains high,
\nIt comes searing ‘cross the skies.<\/p>\n

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
\nIt thunders forth its might,
\nIt is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
\nThe thought that says ‘I’m right!’<\/p>\n

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The Rhyme of Time Bobby Sans There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}