Tag: siege
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The fearless cannot flee
The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…
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Lost branches
I have to search online to read about half the family In pursuit of lost and matching genius; all is vanity Not quite lost tribes but got no eyes on them I’d scale the Wall for the man who guarantees me Harrenhal Up early upturning soil getting worms, above me larks turning Like knights at…
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Useless defences
My text history dirtier than Marquis de Sade’s escapades She learned lessons from history about siegecraft She’s escalading my cascading Jericho walls Knowledge from the world of the ancients She’s at the frontline, waiting patient I’m inspecting the granaries, looking gravefaced Once her wild ephebes scale my walls using their cruel ladders My soldiers weak…
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