{"id":4240,"date":"2012-11-14T00:33:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2017-12-29T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:42:11","slug":"there-came-a-man-who-spoke-from-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/there-came-a-man-who-spoke-from-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"There Came A Man Who Spoke From A Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

There came a man who spoke from a book
\nAnd spoke of better ways
\nOf Heaven and Hell and Judgement
\nFaced by man at the End of Days.
\nSpoke of our salvation
\n\"\"
\nBid us his church to come within
\nSurrender ourselves to the white mans God
\nAnd save ourselves from sin.
\nThe man spoke from the book
\nThat to us he did bring
\nSpoke to say he’d teach us all
\nBut he thought us nothing.
\nOn prairies wide in olden days
\nWhen the Red Man met each other
\nOnce not enemies they found themselves
\nThey automatically were as brother.
\nThey took from the earth what they did want
\nEnough buffalo their families to feed
\nEnough wood and stone for arrows for to make
\nNone extra through greed.
\nEach mans woman was his own
\nNot for another to take
\nAnd woe be to the Brave that was stupid
\nSomeones woman as his to make.
\nThe white man reads from his book
\nA better way for us to show
\nFrom what I see there is to be
\nNothing the Red Man does not know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There came a man who spoke from a book And spoke of better ways Of Heaven and Hell and Judgement Faced by man at the End of Days. 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