Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Cottonfield Monarch

"King Cotton" was the rally cry

That southern states should not fear war

With northern states of U.S. - why?

Because cotton was needed more

By European industry,

Especially England and France.

And so for the South there would be

Their foreign aid for the best chance

To win the war, beating the North.

But the North's navy blockade stopped

The South from shipping cotton forth,

And so no aid Europe did opt.

The U.S. Civil War did cost

"King Cotton's" throne when the South lost.