Byzantium Against The Muslims Stands

Byzantium Against The Muslims Stands .... Logothetes were high officials in charge of specific provinces or Themes within the Byzantine Empire. The Varangian Guard is the equivalent of the Praetorian Guard of ancient Rome. Alexius Comnenus was Byzantine emperor circa 1185 The Logothetes arm up And they will fight The Moorish armies Which advance by night Deus gratia. Beset by sweat and struggle Through infernal regions With mercenary legions Of Swedes and Danes And wild Varangian Guards Upon the Cappadocian Theme They will die and bleed For they know well The wail of minaret The call to prayer, to slaughter. The impetus if Islam must be stopped Though takes the blinding of a thousand men And leaving one with but a single eye. Against the crescent oceans they will stand. Deus Gratia. Alexius Comnenus Feared the wild Crusaders Knowing Franks were just barbarians Who might destroy his City Use his precious gold for loot. And rape the golden Horn to boot. But colors of the Prophet He hated with a frenzy And held them hotly Flashing Grecian fire, Held them long and lasting With icons and with fasting Until the West had found its feet To stand. Carl Estrin