Prairies, Steppes and Plains

SACAE PLAIN
SAXON RAIN
INDIGENOUS STRAIN
OFT INDIFFERENT TO PAIN
THAT ENSUED GAIN

A SCATTERED MASS
FAR FROM THE PAST
MEMORY BLACK
SUCH VAST 
AMNESIA TO UNPACK

PASTURE IN STEPPE
AT OXUS' HEAD 
CIMMERIANS TO SPREAD
BEYOND ANCIENTS' PLEDGE
TO INHERIT PHARAOH'S HEDGE

LENT SWORDS
TO CUT ASSYRIA'S CORDS
FOR JOINING WITH HORDES
IN FURY, ISRAELI LORDS
NAMED ASHUR UNMOORED

OFF THE FORMER YOKE
A NORTHERN COURSE OF HOPE
SET TOWARD ELBURZ SLOPE
TOMYRIS-HELMED, A NEW TRIBE OF FOLK
WEATHER'D ACHAEMENID GROWTH

SAW DARIUS FALL
PARTHIA WAS AS GALL
TO THOSE THAT HOP'D TO STALL 
PLANS OF GOD FOR ALL
AS JACOB WAS GIVEN A CALL

WITH CRASSUS, ROME BOUGHT 
A RIVAL, PAIN IT SOUGHT
PARTHIAN SHOT
CANNAE SAW IT FOUGHT
WARS CAUGHT

PARTHIA ENDS
WHEN IT SPENDS 
MORE THAN
WAR LANDS
LEFT ONE-TIME SANDS

SWEPT IN 
BARBARIAN
TO EUROPE, BEGIN
STATES BY MEN
AS SCYTHIA CHILDREN

EUROPE ASCENT 
FROM A BEDOUIN TENT
THE MAJOR EVENT 
WE CONFIRM INTENT 
OF YAKHOV'S PROPHECY KEPT

IN TRUTH, NONE BLESSED 
IN MUCH CAN ACCESS
JACOB'S SWEET REST
AS HE, UNLESS
GOD'S HOLINESS PROFESSED

OUR MANY TEARS 
ARE FROM MEN UNCLEAR
ON OUR EXPANSION HERE
CAME AT NATIVE LOSS AND SLAVE FEAR
VIEW OTHERS NOT AS PEERS

WE CATER
BLESSIN', YET FAVOR
COMES NOT BY THE THING WE SAVOR
BUT RATHER, AT LOVE OF SAVIOR
HAVE WE MET HIM IN BEHAVIOR?

IN SCARY
NEXUS OF PRAIRIE
LOAD TO CARRY
FAMILIES, MEN, ANIMALS FERRY
STREAMS, THEN GRAZE; WARY

WAGONS THROUGH FLOODS
A BOND THROUGH BLOOD
WAGE WAR IN SOD
CLOD AND MUD
STEEL PLOW, HAND OF GOD!

IF HEAVENLY DEW'S
COME TO YOU 
KNOW THAT IT'S TRUE
FOR SHARING WITH LOVE DUE
LEST YOU, INCURRING WRATH, GOD SLEW


Starting with Letter 1: 
-- Every 7th Letter


SACAE PLAIN
SAXON RAIN
INDIGENOUS STRAIN
OFT INDIFFERENT TO PAIN
THAT ENSUED GAIN

A SCATTERED MASS
FAR FROM THE PAST
MEMORY BLACK
SUCH VAST 
AMNESIA TO UNPACK

PASTURE IN STEPPE
AT OXUS' HEA
CIMMERIANS TO SPREAD
BEYOND ANCIENTS' PLEDGE
TO INHERIT PHARAOH'S HEDGE

LENT SWORDS
TO CUT ASSYRIA'S CORDS
FOR JOINING WITH HORDES
IN FURY, ISRAELI LORDS
NAMED ASHUR UNMOORED

OFF THE FORMER YOKE
A NORTHERN COURSE OF HOPE
SET TOWARD ELBURZ SLOPE
TOMYRIS-HELMED, A NEW TRIBE OF FOLK
WEATHER'D ACHAEMENID GROWTH

SAW DARIUS FALL
PARTHIA WAS AS GALL
TO THOSE THAT HOP'D TO STALL 
PLANS OF GOD FOR ALL
AS JACOB WAS GIVEN A CALL

WITH CRASSUS, ROME BOUGHT 
A RIVAL, PAIN IT SOUGHT
PARTHIAN SHOT
CANNAE SAW IT FOUGHT
WARS CAUGHT

PARTHIA ENDS
WHEN IT SPEND
MORE THAN
WAR LANDS
LEFT ONE-TIME SANDS

SWEPT IN 
BARBARIAN
TO EUROPE, BEGIN
STATES BY MEN
AS SCYTHIA CHILDREN

EUROPE ASCENT 
FROM A BEDOUIN TENT
THE MAJOR EVENT 
WE CONFIRM INTENT 
OF YAKHOV'S PROPHECY KEPT

IN TRUTH, NONE BLESSED 
IN MUCH CAN ACCESS
JACOB'S SWEET REST
AS HE, UNLESS
GOD'S HOLINESS PROFESSED

OUR MANY TEARS 
ARE FROM MEN UNCLEAR
ON OUR EXPANSION HERE
CAME AT NATIVE LOSS AND SLAVE FEAR
VIEW OTHERS NOT AS PEERS

WE CATER
BLESSIN', YET FAVOR
COMES NOT BY THE THING WE SAVOR
BUT RATHER, AT LOVE OF SAVIOR
HAVE WE MET HIM IN BEHAVIOR?

IN SCARY
NEXUS OF PRAIRIE
LOAD TO CARRY
FAMILIES, MEN, ANIMALS FERRY
STREAMS, THEN GRAZE; WARY

WAGONS THROUGH FLOODS
A BOND THROUGH BLOOD
WAGE WAR IN SOD
CLOD AND MUD
STEEL PLOW, HAND OF GOD!

IF HEAVENLY DEW'S
COME TO YOU 
KNOW THAT IT'S TRUE
FOR SHARING WITH LOVE DUE
LEST YOU, INCURRING WRATH, GOD SLEW


Subtext 1: 
SANDS OF THE SEA
HEAVENS' STARS ECLIPSED
A SON OF ADAM FREES EARTH
NEW DEW ALIGHTS
A DAWN IS BRIGHT
SUSPEND HATE
WAN PSYCHES OUTRE
MOVE IN SUCCESS 
OPEN AMERICA'S AVES 
ELECT HARTS ATE IN PLAINS 
THE GOOD HANDS OF EDEN INFILLING


Total Letters: 182
Put Letters Into 14x13 Matrix


(COVERED WAGON)
S A N D S O F T H E S E A H
E A V E N S S T A R S E C L
I P S E D A S O N O F A D A
M F R E E S E A R T H N E W
D E W A L I G H T S A D A W
N I S B R I G H T S U S P E
N D H A T E W A N P S Y C H
E S O U T R E M O V E I N S
U C C E S S O P E N A M E R
I C A S A V E S E L E C T H
A R T S A T E I N P L A I N
S T H E G O O D H A N D S O
F E D E N I N F I L L I N G


Subtext 2: 
AS THE SAND UPON THE SEASHORE

Subtext 3: 
POSSESS THE GATE OF HIS ENEMIES


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