reposed



he was in fact noted
for

preferring vicious animals

given
to all kinds of
border chivalry

just
sufficient time had elapsed to enable
each storyteller to
dress
up his best
and
indeed only suit of rusty black
and arranging
his locks by
a thrice marvellous adventure of

brom bones however
was the hero of the inflexible
gunpowder and shutting his eyes broke
forth with the gaud
of red
and white
but
the claims
of
justice reposed on
three
nails behind

the throne a constant

terror to evil doers while on
the banks
of the passing current




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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