WHAT ONCE WAS

What once was,
Oh the glory of what once was:
America the beautiful,  
From sea to shining sea,
the land of the free,
the home of the brave.
 
Until nuclear war (Russian attack)
-- with the upward drawing vortex of each  
fire ball/mushroom cloud --
sucked it all away into the sky forever.
Forever? No, not forever at all !!
 
For America the Beautiful shall rise again,
like the Phoenix, the magic bird of Greek myth that rises from its own ashes after dying in the flames.
 
Rebirth will come as soon as the curse placed upon white Americans for systematically massacring  
the buffalo by the millions in the 1880s
(to deprive warring Indians of food, etc)
has been visited upon the descendants of the slaugterers.
 
The curse ("Let the destruction they put on us return upon their own heads")
was pronounced by the prophets of the Red Man,
but it will be carried out by another kind of red man, the Reds of (covertly) Communist Russia.