Renga sequence - Section 1

The Emperor's tanks,
Light and swift in the paddies,
Rattle past Stonehenge.

The Emperor's tanks,
Light and swift in the paddies,
Rattle past Stonehenge.
May the great Ceaser's armies
never know Picti defeat.

Dust from the far west roils,
Carthagenians marching.
Fleeing the lava-fires,
slaying their astronomers,
they advance on Berlin.

Fleeing the lava-fires,
slaying their astronomers,
they advance on Berlin.
Moscow, Atlantis of the north,
Has fallen, before the flows.

Dust from the far west roils,
Carthaginians marching.
While the rails are fixed,
Trumpeting over the din,
A lone elephant!

Jacobite forces
marching before dawn's first blush
take London by stealth.
The king flees by submarine
to the thirteen colonies.

The king flees by submarine
to the thirteen colonies.
In hope to enlist
the proud Sioux to Georgian cause,
Spain his proferr'd prize.

Crusader of wise Allah
Makes all Celts to him submit.
The Iberian
Sultans stately battledress
Shines in the spring sun.

The Iberian
Sultans stately battledress
Shines in the spring sun.
Fallen the pagan image
Quetzalcoatl.

Fallen the pagan image
Quetzalcoatl.
Gleaming Phalanxs,
armies of the Sun God Ra,
stand victorious.