The Consummate Fallen Angel
| The devil is agile and quick on his feet |
| He fought at Gettyburg |
| From beginning to end |
| And never got a single scratch |
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| At Verdun and the Somme back in ‘16 |
| He displayed his great flair |
| For adding large numbers |
| Of young souls wickedly squandered |
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| Dulce et decorum est, he shrieked, |
| As the Brits and the Yanks |
| Stoked the fires of hell at Hamburg |
| In Operation Gomorrah |
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| A master linguist, he spoke fluently in |
| Vietnamese, French, and English |
| Amid fetid fields and burnt villages |
| Fouled by napalm and rotting flesh |
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| He never tires and needs no maps |
| Finding his way through the world with ease |
| As if he has visited each place |
| Many times before, since the dawn of time |
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Reprinted from The Beacon Blog.
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