{"id":2077,"date":"2015-07-22T03:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2015-07-22T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:39:16","slug":"toasting-two-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/toasting-two-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Toasting Two Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking down on Aughrim Village from the Jacobite positions which was a carpark during the Aughrim Horse Fair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was at the Aughrim Horse Fair last Sunday, and while viewing all of the horses – and the women! – there, I took a walk around the village to see the site of the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle in the Williamite wars, which are commemorated each year in the North.<\/p>\n

I thought to myself had James won that war, what sort of Theocracy would we have had in these islands? Bad and all as the abuse scandals cover up was since 1922, imagine trying to uncover that with the entire Royal machine behind the church to stop you?<\/p>\n

Maybe God had a reason for James losing the war… so while saying a silent prayer for the dead Jacobites and a silent toast to the King O’er the Water, I gave a silent nod to William too…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Neath Aughrim hill, at the Fair I stood
\nOn a lane once washed with human blood
\nWhere horses wild ran in for their lives in vein
\nDied beside man in a fight for which neither gain.<\/p>\n

We lost that battle, as we did the Boyne before
\nWe were to lose the war too, and rebellions, many more
\nWe rebel and rise up as we think that we are right
\nAs fools do who never learn, you lose when you fight.<\/p>\n

I said on that roadway, a silent prayer
\nFor the tortured spirits who tied tragic on these fields there
\nI gave a silent toast to the King O’er the Water
\nAnd a grave nod to the man who married the kings daughter.<\/p>\n

Why to your victor do you give nod, I hear you say?
\nI think back to where our little island is here today
\nIf James had won, we would have had in these islands a Catholic state
\nLike we had since 1922 which was not so great…<\/p>\n

The freedom we take for granted the church to criticize
\nWe would not have had we not lost, we must realise
\nTo free the Protestants he fought, he solemnly did state
\nNot to persecute the Catholics, unlike those who call him great.<\/p>\n

The abuse scandals, hushed and all, at last exposed
\nNever would have been had James not been deposed
\nIn all things God has a plan that us men cannot see
\nSometimes we must endure bondage in order to be free.<\/p>\n

The Pope of the day was Williams ally
\nA tactical one say those who the Popes words deny
\nWhen he crossed over to the Stewards, his war with France now won
\nThe bigots got power in London, and the Penal times begun.<\/p>\n

Give to Cesear whats his, the words Jesus said:
\nIf only were practiced, how many would not be dead?
\nThere would be no parades, there would be little hate
\nThis island of ours would be united and great…<\/p>\n

The church in politics, it has no place
\nThe devil is in power, and shows up his face
\nAs dogma clouds Jesus words, we condemn fornication
\nYet we murder another for being from the wrong nation.<\/p>\n

Politics in the church has no place too
\nEveryman is a sinner equal in his pew
\nIf too late we so late this lesson we learn
\nIt might be worth all the pain it took to earn.<\/p>\n

So I toasted two kings as I walked roads where fools died for these kings
\nI walked back to horse traders and more modern times and things
\nAs I left behind me the fields of slaughter there
\nI hoped for a time when Aughrim is known way more for its Fair.<\/p>\n

\"John
John Mulvany – The Battle of Aughrim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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