[Northkeep] As promised

[DulcetKitten at aol.com]

Ballad of the Fallen Pavilion
In honor of the death of the pavilion of Æthelred of the broken shield
on the occasion of the Mooneschadowe Guardian of the current year
(mundanely 2003)

The sky was dark
And the feast was over
The rain fell down
Upon the field
And on the grass
Lay the downed pavilion
Though it was torn
It refused to yield.

The wind it howled
And the creeks ran over
And all of us
Huddled in the hall
Though we had tried
To prop it upright
The poor pavilion
Was doomed to fall.

It spent the night
Strewn across the grasses
And yet it still
Refused to yield
Our noble tarp
And poles of plastic
Protector of
The list field.

We will remember
The pavilion's courage
For in the morn
‘Twas too late to save
That bastion of the
Hallowed list field
The symbol of 
All that's true and brave.

-Kasha Ivanova
Title Bard of Northkeep
P.S.- I have a tune as well, and look forward to being throttled mercilessly, 
by those who warned me not to write this, when I first try to sing it in 
public.
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