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Part 2 of The Honorverse in Poetry
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2013-07-11
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Nurture as Bagpipes

Summary:

My children, they shall rule all worlds

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

My children, they shall rule all worlds
All of them, with growing cheer
Nature triumphs; nurture skirls

The pretty skies of stars like pearls
Are ours to rule, or so I hear
My children, they shall rule all worlds

Into my head I knowledge furl
From our path we shall not veer
Nature triumphs; nurture skirls

My plans nothing shall cause to burl
To outsiders I only jeer
My children, they shall rule all worlds

Want to stop me? Oh, you churls
Hear my name, be filled with fear
Nature triumphs; nurture skirls

As my masterplan uncurls
Mankind's future beckons near
My children, they shall rule all worlds
Nature triumphs; nurture skirls

Notes:

What We've Learned From Writing This: never use "world" in poetry if it has to rhyme with absolutely anything. I doesn't rhyme.
Skirling: when a (bagpipe) emits a shrill sound
Churl: boorish person, peasant
Burl: a knot in a tree

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