Tag: history
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Black and Tans Back
Troop movements Flew them in from the Somme The carrier never slows Upon the mountain roads That stows the troops Stoves the Rhodes colossus of our rebel movement The dizzying slopes. Upon the mountain roads What’s moving shoot What’s shining loot What’s that ticking In the truck boot Roger Casement armed me Brand new Irish…
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NEWGODS
Father Gods their days are gone Finned lords thralls to damp Dagon When the biggest of bangs drums That time has at last begun He watched seething Those underthumb he sent seeking Screeching through voids in sleek craft All manner of profane spellcraft would be at their disposal Dark brides for their bethrotal, soon as…
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Lessens
Always felt lessons lessened me I used to doodle during lessons except english and history Now I dawdle along an endless present, accept lessons from history Those who came first Who wore furs and trapped Dragged the first furrows Built fish traps Buried flint at Mount Sandel Ten thousand years old I suppose no one…
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Pilgrims Walking – III
Are you bound for Coventry, sirs? He is in bearing a laird In character a cur, clear liar His seals of office wholly undeserved His officers spurs you could not call earned Eyes covetous as a drake’s dream of jewels gleaming in its lair What Joyce called a heaventree Of stars spans the sky above…
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Hero’s Arrival
Bull totem clan Campbell, not can See the antient man Reaper and reaver of and on his lands His mouth’s demands are brought around to heel by his hands His fastness a forest fortress, like Vodalus, fighters from the Fianna Who heard singing Lia Fáil, line its wooden walls, loyal to their Rí They wear…
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