A Tainted Foretelling

Up from the valleys and down from the hills
Came the armed men and women in masses,
The workmen abandoned posts at the mills
And farmers left the plainsland grasses.

A towering wizard showed them the way
As they marched onward and stormed the gate.
A man they would kill on this very day
And forever seal their ordained fate.

Doomed was the man of unnatural mind
Who constructed machines with an engine.
Answers to ev'ry question would he find
From boxes that voices could speak in.

A mighty battle was fought at the wall
And the evening sky blazed brightly with flame.
Beasts charged forth to heed the stargazer's call
To kill this man without common name.

By twilight, the man knew he could not win,
One by one, charges were read from a list.
Burned at the stake, so blasphemous his sin,
Was the man known as the "Scientist"!

*Author's Note: Popular tavern song as performed by the wandering bard Zeolates.