CR - Grave Tidings from Steppes
Lisette de
lizdemeyners at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 30 08:29:46 PST 1998
Amra, can we have your permission to put this in the Steppesletter?
---"Mike C. Baker" <kihe at ticnet.com> wrote:
>
> I have just been informed that Ansteorra has added yet
> another of its stars to the vault of the heavens this evening.
> Her Excellency, Baroness to the Court of Ansteorra, the
> Honorable Lady Vashti of the Flaming Tresses,
> passed from this existence to the next earlier today.
>
> Dancers, what step is appropriate to pace out a dirge
> in memory of the fallen? Teach us to tread it rightly,
> as she would have herself were she still here.
>
> Fools, be still a moment, and remember. Laugh again
> when you must, and help us all to laugh again once we
> have been through our grief.
>
> Tellers of tales, singers, poets -- you know what it is that
> must be done. May the Powers grant that you will do
> this silenced lady justice as you make your rememberances.
>
> Potentates and fyrd-folk, take heed and recall, and command
> that your subjects and your oath-takers do likewise.
>
> It is a season of thanksgiving. Give thanks that in the end
> she slipped away swiftly, after so much had been pain in
> her recent mortal illness.
>
> Remember.
>
> Another dancer now "weaves under the fire-thorn".
>
==
Lady Lisette de Meyners
Steppes Historian
Barony of the Steppes
Ansteorra
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