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    The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles
    The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles
    The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles
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    The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles

    By Arthur F Apgar

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    "The Knight's of Malta......."contains a selection of Apgar's verses most of which accurately chronicle some significant historical events and are familiar to readers if only in general terms. Also in this volume is some imaginative verse sure to touch on hot button issues, whatever the reader's political persuasion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 28, 2011
    ISBN9781456799618
    The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles
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    Arthur F Apgar

    Art Apgar is a graduate of Iona College and spent many years holding management and ownership positions in enterprizes spread around three of New York's five boroughs and eventually retiring from a family wholesale business that he founded in New Milford, CT. He presently enjoys the sunshine on Florida's beaches, and the ambience of the local coffee shops where he spends time reading background material and scribbling his verses. He resides in Viera with wife, Ann and their mischievous Labradoodle, Andy.

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      The Knights of Malta, World Wars, a Great Plague, a Killer Shark in New Jersey and Other Heartwarming Chronicles - Arthur F Apgar

      Section 1

      HISTORY

      What follows are historic events—

      all of them tragic—recorded in rhyme.

      Some are revealing of descriptive

      details of actual events, whereas others

      simply relate a broad view of a given era.

      In any case, the aim of these verses is to

      acquaint the reader with some perspective

      of specific milestones that have shaped our

      current world and of other lesser tragedies

      that serve merely as footnotes to recent

      generations.

      Malta Prologue

      Persians, Greeks, Israelites and Rome

      Had ever made the Holy Land their home

      Then following Mohammed’s ascent to heaven’s bliss

      The Byzantine defenders of Jerusalem in battle remiss

      Did yield their holy prize to the Muslim hordes

      Then exactly 1,000 years before the great Twin Towers fell

      The Christian West did loose their mighty knights from Hell

      Templars, Hospitaliers and other lesser orders

      Lead a rag-tag Christian force to Jerusalem’s very borders

      Then drew their battle swords

      Through many a savage crusade did these western pilgrims march

      Laying waste Europe’s villages along the way as they the land did parch

      As Muslims and Christians each to their divinity fervently pray

      Reducing not the multitude of headless corpses that after the battles lay

      Though each opposing culture believed their cause was right

      For two hundred years did these fierce and furious battles rage

      Until the ninth crusade did finally turn history’s bloodstained page

      As Templars and Hospitaliers alike did fall at Acre in their final fight

      The Templars returning to inquisition, torture and death, as the Hospitaliers

      Did on the Island of Rhodes alight

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      Maltese Castle

      Malta

      An historical history in verse

      Gather round me lads and lasses, gather round

      And hear the tale of Malta I now relate

      Of battles fought and blood on hallowed ground

      Of Christians and Muslims filled with unrelenting hate

      We have all heard of the Templar Knight

      Who in the great crusades were to the Holy Land drawn

      Now hear the annals of other Knights that there did fight

      Known well in the battles for Jerusalem as the Order of St John

      The Pilgrims revered them as the Knight Hospitaliers

      Treating and caring for Knights and Pilgrims all

      Until the battle at Acre realized their most dread fears

      As decimated in battle alongside the Templers they did fall

      Amidst rivers of blood, scattered torsos and limb

      Leaving a last vestige of the Crusades on bloody sand

      Ere the 1291 battle of Acre; a feast for the reaper grim

      As the few remaining Knights yielded the Holy Land

      So were the Knight Hospitalier and Templar severely rent

      Ending 200 years of Mother Church’s holy charade

      As from the shores of Acre they were finally sent

      So tragically, sadly into history they did fade

      Though the Knights Templar did from history to legend blend

      The Hospitaliers in 16 years on the Isle of Rhodes finally

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