http://wordie.org/people/oroboros?wl=1979#comments Comments for the word list 'Alphabet Soup' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/people/oroboros?wl=1979#comments Awesome list :) Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:19:59 +0000 http://wordie.org/people/oroboros?wl=1979#comments http://wordie.org/people/oroboros?wl=1979#comments THE SEIGE OF BELGRADE<br /><br />An Austrian army awfully arrayed,<br />Boldly by battery beseiged Belgrade.<br />Cossack commanders cannonading come,<br />Dealing destruction's devastating doom.<br />Every endeavor engineer's essay<br />For fame, for fortune, forming furious fray;<br />Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good;<br />Heaves high his head heroic hardihood.<br />Ibraham, Islam, Ismail, imps in ill,<br />Jostle John, Jarovlitz, Joe, Jack, Jill,<br />Kick kindling Kutosoff, kings' kinsmen kill.<br />Labor low levels loftiest, longest lines;<br />Men march 'mid mobs, 'mid mounds, 'mid murd'rous mines.<br />Now nightfall's near, now needful nature nods,<br />Opposed, opposing, overcoming odds.<br />Poor peasants, partly purchased, partly pressed,<br />Quite quaking, Quarter! quickly quest.<br />Reason returns, recalls redundant rage,<br />Saves sinking soldiers, softens seigniors sage.<br />Truce, Turkey, truce! Truce, treach'rous Tartar train!<br />Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!<br />Vanish, vile vengeance! Vanish, victory vain!<br />Wisdom wails war, wails warring words. What were<br />Xerxes, Xantippe, Ximenes, Xavier?<br />Yet Yassy's youth, ye yield your youthful yest,<br />Zealously, Zarius, zealously zeal's zest,<br />And all, allied, amicably advance abreast... Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:36:21 +0000 http://wordie.org/people/oroboros?wl=1979#comments