History


WHEN NAPOLEON CAME BACK FROM THE WAR,
HE REACHED HOME AND OPENED HIS FRONT DOOR.
"YOU'RE ILL, " JOSEPHINE SAID,
"YOU MUST GO STRAIGHT TO BED"
NAP SAID "NOT TONIGHT,DEAR,MY HEAD'S SORE"

AN OLD ROMAN EMPEROR NAMED NERO
WAS CONSIDERED BY SOME AS THEIR HERO.
HIS ESTEEM COULD'VE GONE HIGHER
BUT BECAUSE OF THE FIRE
HIS POPULARITY DROPPED TO A ZERO!!



HE WAS READY AND ABLE AND WILLING.
HE AGREED TO TAKE THE KING'S SHILLING.
HE PUT HIS "X" ON THE LINE,
HE SPENT THE MONEY ON WINE
THE NEW LIFE TOOK HIM AWAY FROM HIS TILLING*
* A farming technique.

THERE WAS A GREEK GORGON, MEDUSA,
WHOSE MORALS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOOSER.
WITH SERPENTS FOR HAIR
SHE HAD ONLY ONE CARE,
NO ONE EVER SAID "INTRODUCE HER"!!

YOU'VE HEARD OF THE MARQUIS OF SADE,
WHOSE REPUTATION WAS TERRIBLY BAD.
FROM SEX, TO A DUEL,
HE ENJOYED BEING CRUEL,
THE MAN, SIR, IN FACT, WAS A CAD!!!

THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL CALLED MARIA,
IN HER HOME VILLAGE SHE WAS CALLED A PARIAH.
MANY CAME TO BEFRIEND HER,
SAID THEY WOULD DEFEND HER,
AT THE STAKE SHE'D BEEN SENTENCED TO FIRE!!!

THERE WAS A GREEK GODDESS NAMED NYX
WHO TRIED TO ROW OVER THE STYX.
LET GO OF THE OARS
DID NOT REACH THE FAR SHORES,
THE POOR GODDESS WAS IN A DEEP FIX!

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