Together We Stand

                                                                                                                       Kustodiev

TOGETHER WE STAND!

(An Acrostic)

Tip-top people all are we!

Our strength and great nobility

Gain us plaudits everywhere!

Enemies just stand and stare!

Think how all those lower folk

Have to slave beneath our yoke!

Everybody would like to be

Revered, and on our family tree!

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When the peasants bow, perforce,

Eating humble pie, of course,

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Sullen faces meet our gaze!

Turned from us! Where is the praise?

All we ask is they adore us;

Numbly genuflect before us!

Do not mock and do not scoff!

We're proud of the name of

Romanov!

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Another from the same era here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/rasputin.html