The Dragon

A fiery dragon will cross the sky,

Six times before this earth shall die.

Mankind will tremble and frightened be,

For the sixth heralds in this prophecy.

For seven days and seven nights,

Man will watch this awesome sight.

The tides will rise beyond their ken,

To bite away the shores and then

The mountains will begin to roar;

And earthquakes split the plain to shore.

And flooding waters, rushing in --

Will flood the lands with such a din,

That mankind cowers in muddy fen,

And snarls about his fellow men.

He bares his teeth and fights and kills,

And secrets food in secret hills,

And ugly in his fear, he lies,

To kill marauders, thieves and spies.

Man flees in terror from the floods,

And kills, and rapes and lies in blood,

And spilling blood by mankind's hands,

Will stain and bitter many lands.

And when the dragon's tail is gone,

Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on,

To apply himself - too late, too late --

For mankind has earned deserved fate.

His masked smile - his false grandeur,

Will serve the devil their anger stir.

And they will send the Dragon back,

To light the sky - his tail will crack

Upon the earth and rend the earth;

And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf.

But slowly they are routed out,
To seek diminishing water spout,
And men will die of thirst before
The oceans rise to mount the shore.
And lands will crack and rend anew,
You think it strange.
It will come true.