Powerful words, bold effect. Nice one.
c s shah
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grasshopper wrote:
>
> Aftermath
>
> Enough. I have no stomach to defame
> his memory. The man died well. Set men to prise
> the blazons from the walls and doors. My name
> will over-write his wealth, my lordly rise
> will soon rub out his lineage and his line.
> Bring in my hounds, my hawks, install my pages.
> Unlock his stores, uncask his finest wine,
> unchain his chests to pay my army's wages.
>
> My sword is stained with blood, indeed. No, leave
> it so. They say good brands must drink their fill
> before they sleep. That steel was forged to cleave
> the armour of my foes, to carve and kill.
>
> His family? Safe passage to the North,
> except that one fair daughter -bring her forth.
>
> (grasshopper)
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