King Cyrus the Great

CYRUS II - 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 As 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 was 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 Don’t you just have to give it all, to those arty Jewish folk It was our God that had this in the bag like some bad joke And to why you cannot believe a word those Jews wrote Cyrus was God’s anointed, someone is pulling at my goat Anything to take the all creds from old King Cyrus himself Who built his empire on his own credit, & 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, was 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 CYRUS THE GREAT- PART 2 Some say that Cyrus; departed, from this life peacefully That in his tomb in Pasargadae; lived his death blissfully That was; until Alexander the Great, came to be around On finding his tomb raided; he was more than, astound Alexander; did his best to patch the tomb back to good He had so admired, King Cyrus; from his own childhood Cyrus who I only presume he got all his inspiration from Who; strangely made sure the Persian Empire was gone One of the ways that Cyrus may have kicked the bucket That is was Tomyris; a Massagetean Queen, who dunnit Cyrus wanted Tomyris hand in marriage, and her realm But Tomyris, was keeping her hands tightly to the helm Cleverly; got old King Cyrus, to fight on her own ground That as military judgment goes, this was not very sound But he put his shot of cleverness in as enraged Tomyris By getting Spargapises, and his troops fed, then dissed Cyrus troops returned and, slaughtered them all by fall This is to where clever King Cyrus, made the wrong call Spargapises was Tomyris’s son, she wants Cyrus’s head And, is not prepared to rest, until King Cyrus was dead As Cyrus death was nigh and to Tomyris the battle won On decapitated his head revenged the death of her son If only King Cyrus, had stuck to his hobby, of gardening Then just stayed with all those Persian rugs, bargaining But as any king, King Cyrus just wanted a little bit more Hence; as to why the beggar, just wasn't here anymore Indiana Shaw . . . : )