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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Posted with the author's permission. He wrote
this at Gothic Wars.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Genevieve</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>ODE TO WATERBEARERS</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>For days when sunshine beats down on your face<BR>and all your tries at hiding are in vain<BR>your camp, you see, is not a shady place
and prayers are met with reddened skin in pain.<BR>Your lips are dry and chapped and cracked and sore.<BR>Your throat is parched in need of something wet.<BR>What fool thought summer good for Gothic War?<BR>You'd beat him, but you're dehydrated yet.
<BR>But who is this approaching now with jugs?**<BR>An angel bringing water, snacks in tubs!</FONT></PRE>
<DIV><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is a water-bearer! By God's
Grace.<BR>And in her arms is drink, your thirst to wane.<BR>You hated pickles;
now you love their taste;<BR>ambrosia tepid water puts to shame.<BR>It matters
not to them if you are poor,<BR>or if their work with money can't be met.<BR>In
thanks and health these people place much store.<BR>Good gentles now methinks
our task is set:<BR>To keep them happy is our solemn call.<BR>We need our
water-bearers, one and all!<BR><BR>The bearers of water be praised<BR>while they
are at work not at laze<BR>For without them we'd die (though for sooth you may
try),<BR>as for me, all their names I will raise!(composed at Gothic War
XVI)<BR></FONT><BR>-- <BR>In service to The Dream,<BR>Cuillioc
"Quill" /|\<BR>Titled Bard of the Barony of Bonwicke and
Mendershamshire <BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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