Balshazzar’s Feast
Balshzzar’s Feast
(539 BC)
Wild was the music played
In Babylon;
Rare the fine foods arrayed
And rich the robes displayed
In Babylon,
At King Balshazzar’s feast.
How merry was the sport
In Babylon,
And impious the thought
Within the Royal Court
In Babylon,
At proud Balshazzar’s feast.
Then something quite unplanned
In Babylon
Occurred. A ghostly hand,
(How, none could understand
In Babylon
At King Balshazzar’s feast),
Wrote on the palace wall,
In Babylon,
Strange words that would appal
The spirits of them all
In Babylon,
At scared Balshazzar’s feast.
No-one could comprehend
In Babylon
What those words would portend;
(Not grandest nor most kennned
In Babylon
At King Balshazzar’s feast),
Till Daniel spoke out
In Babylon
Predicting, with no doubt,
An imminent grim rout
In Babylon
At lost Balshazzar’s feast.
His prophecy proved right
In Babylon
Because, that very night,
The Court was put to flight
In Babylon
At King Balshazzar’s feast.
All happened as disclosed
In Babylon;
Monarch and Court deposed
By Cyrus, who reposed
In Babylon,
At dead Balshazzar’s feast.
