For love and hate of angelic queen
Where beauty twined its heavenly snare
Did launch the ships of ten thousand score
To sail the Styx for one maiden fair

Again and again did they rally forth
To break upon Troy's mighty gates
How they fell 'neath Hector's sword
And how they were left in Achilles' wake

Ten long years for gods and men
Struggling across the barren plain
Where blood and ashes mingled grey
And higher rose the numbers slain

Tamer of horses, prince and hero
Honor bright as tempered steel
Balked not before immortal's fury
Dread fate of Troy his death did seal

In the shadow of those monumental walls
Did arise Odysseus, sage and king
To spell out the doom of Trojan sons
By building the wooden horse of fame

Tell-tale sails upon the ocean front
Bolstered high a foolish pride
Trundled in the timber death
Disgorging the plague of steel inside

Paris, archer, vision true
Straight and narrow line of flight
Took an immortal by the heel
Bled Great Achilles of his fight

Burn Troy
Burning bright
Would there be a city as great
Gates as high, Walls as thick
Again?

croc.//allied inspiration.

'No son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler'
'Then every son of Troy shall die'