Lady Katharine's Castle
Great Hall
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My mother likes to say "It's not so important how proud you are of your ancestors, but how proud would they be of you?"
I wrote the following poem with this in mind.
Ancestors
Trudging through the tangled path,
Thwarted, stalled, and pressing on -
Once more perseverance hath
The ages won.
Never looking back nor seeking
Comforts of familiar places -
Ravaging wildness, wreaking
Aging faces.
Dauntless, following the need,
Pulsing through their gritty marrow -
Beyond tomorrow, cast slow-speed
Flies the arrow.
Morning ever dawns anew -
Places, mortals, hours unfolding,
Leave behind the smallest clue,
Truth withholding.
Peering back through chapters' prose,
Victories found within the pages -
Touted brazenly by those
In modern ages.
Whence come forth the haughty proud,
We followers left in their wake?
What deeds enveloped in fate's shroud,
Their pride will make?
Thwarted, stalled, and pressing on -
Once more perseverance hath
The ages won.
Never looking back nor seeking
Comforts of familiar places -
Ravaging wildness, wreaking
Aging faces.
Dauntless, following the need,
Pulsing through their gritty marrow -
Beyond tomorrow, cast slow-speed
Flies the arrow.
Morning ever dawns anew -
Places, mortals, hours unfolding,
Leave behind the smallest clue,
Truth withholding.
Peering back through chapters' prose,
Victories found within the pages -
Touted brazenly by those
In modern ages.
Whence come forth the haughty proud,
We followers left in their wake?
What deeds enveloped in fate's shroud,
Their pride will make?
****music: Vivaldi/Four Seasons/Winter (Fourth Movement)
Something coming soon to this page!!! (when I think of what to put here)
In the meantime, something amusing!!
In the meantime, something amusing!!
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