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align=center><SPAN class=748315811-13012004> </SPAN>Call to Estrella</P>
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align=center>Red arrow flying!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Black Star Rising</P>
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align=center>Over Blood Red Sun!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Glory to be won!</P>
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align=center>Deeds to be done</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>On fields of dread!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Falcon will be fed!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>War lies ahead</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>For Blackstar’s foe!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Dealing death blow!</P>
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align=center>Biting swords show</P>
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align=center>Their strength, striking.</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Lancers charging!</P>
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align=center>Heavy hooves drumming;</P>
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align=center>Iron-shod attack!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Foemen reel back!</P>
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align=center>Bows sing, axes hack</P>
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align=center>Shield punches jar!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Heroes Stellar!</P>
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align=center>On War’s altar</P>
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align=center>Tribute heaping!</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Steel blades clashing!</P>
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align=center>Brave souls dying</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Of battle’s fever.</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Foemen waver!</P>
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align=center>Most sleep forever</P>
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align=center>‘Neath Death’s dark wood.</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Royal brotherhood!</P>
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align=center>Triumph in bud,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Flow’ring ahead.</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Foemen have fled!</P>
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align=center>The living dead,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center>Cowards men shun.</P>
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align=center> <o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center>Falcon Flying!</P>
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align=center>Black Star Rising</P>
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align=center>Over Blood Red Sun!<BR><SPAN class=748315811-13012004><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
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size=2>[ED Reese] </FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN class=748315811-13012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I am wondering if I have heard "Black Star Rising Over Blood Red
Sun" somewhere else....</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2>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. :-)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN class=748315811-13012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Feel free to lambaste away!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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