Russia The Country

By God, How time runs fast!

Not long ago, to be exact,

A year and three-quarter past;

In defiance of the Red October,
And the execution of Czar Alexander
They Exhumed his remains

Only to inhume for lack of better choice.

What marked the event different,

From the culprits' treatment;

Endless mourners passed the catafalque

Perchance, controvertibly deserving for a man of his stature

They kept the chorale the whole day to play

Pageantry the likes of which

The country had not seen for long was also in display.

But with the lost leader what Muscovites forgot to bury
Was Russia the country.

Copyright Haileselassie Giramy
4/9/98

Updated 17/6/2001