Cyrus
Prologue
Around 2600 years ago in the ancient city of Ecbatan,
was born a child to the Royal Persian House of Anshan,
son of Cambyses a just and noble king,
and Mandane a gentle and beautiful queen,
daughter of Astyages the Median tyrant king,
bore Cyrus the greatest emperor ever seen.
The first Achaeme
Was born a child to the Royal Persian House of Anshan,
nid Emperor,Cyrus was a most humble and upright ruler
destined to be the greatest emperor
Around 2600 years ago in the ancient city of Ecbatan,
to ever grace the world’s stage.
Excelled he in compassion and intelligence,
a strong and gentle soul who never countenanced anger or rage.
Abhorred did he people of sloth, disloyalty and wicked sense.
On the death of his father Cambyses,
bequeathed was he a small impoverished kingdom
the city-state Anshan, a vassal of the Median Emperor Astyages.
The Persians were the model of civilized admiration,
from peasant to king, observed all the rule of law,
equality prevailed, till Cyrus was no more.
From the king of a humble and rugged city-state,
Cyrus became liege of powerful Media,
with the consent of its grateful citizenry,
who revolted and sealed brutal Astyages’ fate.
Soon after, he conquered the great empires of wealthy Lydia,
and Old Babylonia with its cultural grace so mighty
And on his dying breath his son Cambyses, did he leave
a vast and diverse empire, the like of which had never before been,
Stretching thousands of miles in each and every direction,
from Arabia in the South to the northern Black Sea,
Lydia in the West to Gandhara in the East the most glorious ever seen,
with peoples, races and tongues too numerous to mention.
Cyrus’ rule was a model of deference and tolerance
for one’s fellow man irrespective of race religion or creed.
All the differing peoples of his empire remained unencumbered,
to practice their religions and laws unfettered.
Treated were all equally, his vassals the same as his Persian breed.
Ushered he a reign of benevolence
not of terror and malevolence.
A Father, A Law Bringer, A Liberator, An Anointed Soul was he,
who freed the weak from the bonds of servitude and abolished slavery.
Commanded he such love and affection by his graciousness
that, many who never did him see,
felt indebted loyalty
for his kindness
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