{"id":782,"date":"2014-09-29T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-09-29T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:11:00","slug":"babylons-tower-fell-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/babylons-tower-fell-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Babylon’s Tower Fell Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
Babylons tower fell down<\/div>\n
After angering god by Heaven trying to reach<\/div>\n
And so God toppled the tower<\/div>\n
Confused their tongues, a lesson for to teach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The seeking of perfection was not good<\/div>\n
No, the tower was built through pride<\/div>\n
It was not built of love, as be it should,<\/div>\n
No, but intent hard of heart was inside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
I, the writer, wrote long into night<\/div>\n
Verses for which I thought maybe in time have renown<\/div>\n
And lost the disk on which they were stored<\/div>\n
And so my Babylonic poetic tower fell down!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\"Tower<\/a>
Tower Of Babylon Falling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Babylons tower fell down After angering god by Heaven trying to reach And so God toppled the tower Confused their tongues, a lesson for to teach. The seeking of perfection was not good No, the tower was built through pride It was not built of love, as be it should, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1019,814,541,1020,1018],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-babylon","tag-poem-on-writing","tag-pride","tag-sin-of-pride","tag-tower-of-babylon","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-cC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1452,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-who-perfection-seek-shall-be-smited-for-their-pride\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":0},"title":"Those Who Perfection Seek Shall Be Smited for Their Pride","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th February 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fqUwsFuNumA Those who total perfection seek shall be smited for their Pride For to achieve perfection is to say you are better than all others God made man with qualities of both bad and good inside No one, though he may think himself to be, is any better than another\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Biblical Epics"","block_context":{"text":"Biblical Epics","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/moral\/biblical-epics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/fqUwsFuNumA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/brethren-who-built-this-babylon\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":1},"title":"Brethren Who Built This Babylon","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Brethren they who built our Babylon Which through folly of fools if falling down Charlatans thought the walls did not need all the stones So they pulled them out, selling them to another town. 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