[Bards] Well, it started with documentation....

[Marie Adams]

I think that was beautiful! It would make a wonderful war cry for troops
marching into battle! --- Serena Dominicci

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, ED Reese wrote:

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>  Call to Estrella
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> Red arrow flying!
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> Black Star Rising
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> Over Blood Red Sun!
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> Glory to be won!
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> Deeds to be done
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> On fields of dread!
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> Falcon will be fed!
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> War lies ahead
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> For Blackstar's foe!
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> Dealing death blow!
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> Biting swords show
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> Their strength, striking.
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> Lancers charging!
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> Heavy hooves drumming;
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> Iron-shod attack!
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> Foemen reel back!
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> Bows sing, axes hack
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> Shield punches jar!
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> Heroes Stellar!
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> On War's altar
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> Tribute heaping!
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> Steel blades clashing!
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> Brave souls dying
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> Of battle's fever.
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> Foemen waver!
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> Most sleep forever
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> 'Neath Death's dark wood.
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> Royal brotherhood!
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> Triumph in bud,
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> Flow'ring ahead.
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> Foemen have fled!
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> The living dead,
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> Cowards men shun.
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> Falcon Flying!
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> Black Star Rising
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> Over Blood Red Sun!
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> [ED Reese]
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> I am wondering if I have heard "Black Star Rising Over Blood Red Sun"
> somewhere else....
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> Anyway, the discussion on documentation got me reminiscing about my Italian
> Ren studies, especially the kind of numerological tricks the Florentines
> liked to play. The opening line was something His Majesty said at
> Coronation, when pledging Ansteorran support to Calontir (the Falcon
> thrones) at Estrella War. The Blackstar Rising Over Blood Red Sun is how I
> mentally "blazon" the Ansteorran Arms.
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> I made up the rhyme scheme "in the style of Dante", so that there are three
> lines in every verse, and instead of the nine syllables of terze rime per
> line, I used four. I used four -- except for the five in the Blood Red Sun
> line, which should actually read "o'er" instead of over. Yes, they used
> those syllable shrinking things, too.
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> The rhyme scheme is aab, bbc and so on. To give myself a tighter limit, so I
> could get to what I wanted to say faster, the rhyme that changes in each
> verse, rhymes with its numerical equivalent in the line "Blackstar rising
> over blood red sun." The blood verse is somewhat off, for the simple fact
> that not a lot rhymes with blood, but what the hey. I started this at 2:30
> in the morning, because I couldn't get to sleep. :-)
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> Feel free to lambaste away!
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> Esther
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