SATIRE NO1

NOW EVER MAN , HIS DEBT BY NATURE PAYS,
VARIED ARE THEY ALL IN MANY WAYS,
SOME WERE WISE, THEY GAVE THEIR THOUGHT,
OTHERS BY WHOM THE BATTLES WERE FOUGHT,
ANNANIAS THEGREATEST LIAR,
NERO WHO SET ROME ON FIRE,
VOLTAIRE NEVER A ONE SO WITTY,
ON CEASAR STILL WE LOOK WITH PITY,
NAPOLEON HE , THE GREATEST SOLDIER,
METHUSELAH NONE GREW OLDER,
ALL THOSE GOOD AND ALL THOSE BAD,
A CHANCE IN LIFE THEY ALL HAVE HAD,
ALL HAVE LIVED AND MET THEIR DOOM,
TO LIE IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOMB

DAVID ROBERTS