Canto II Stanzas XII-XVII are my favourites:

Post By HH Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 05:45:56 pm EDT	Subject Canto II Stanzas XII-XVII are my favourites: Originally Thank you, but I think that trying to produce a saga like that would be beyond my talents.	In Reply To Manga Shoggoth Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 03:38:21 pm EDT

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Canto II Stanzas XII-XVII are my favourites:

With trembling hearts they waited for their fate
Poor exiles from their lost and blissful home
No help left now but kneel low and await
Their master’s will. They stayed to hear their doom.

With tread like to colossus lords of old
Regaliad in princely mustard gown
Imperious Visionary as foretold
Came to inspect his trophies with a frown.

His noble gaze swept o’er the captured prize
Who cowered eager for his royal word
Afraid that he might cast out or despise
Or slay them cruelly as they had heard.

Yet pity moved his mighty, gentle heart
And never did he do his chattels woe
But embraced them and stood to take their part
And brought them home to shield them from all foe.

No art may speak the wonders of his lands
His House of marvels where he ruled as master
He healed his slaves with kind and gentle hands
And sheltered them from peril and disaster.

Prodigious was this Visionary king
Or mighty size and strength and full of fight
None could resist his will in anything
The rest of him was just of medium height.

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* Now we just need the sheet music :) (no text) - Hatman - Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 04:52:41 pm EDT
- * We're getting back towards LL:The Musical now. (no text) - HH - Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 07:38:18 am EDT
* And you're too clever by half :-) - Dancer - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 04:52:06 pm EDT
- * Only by half? (no text) - HH - Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 01:22:53 pm EDT
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- * This stuff? Yes. (no text) - HH, forebearing from inflicting a poetry chapter of UT on the world - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 08:06:07 am EDT
* Wow. Is there anything you cant do? (no text) - ag said with awe, for lo! Ian wrote much with his furry paw. - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:48:56 pm EDT
- * Iambic verse is naught, the trick's not tough; you simply tum-de-dum to write the stuff. (no text) - HH - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:53:22 pm EDT
  - * That might be great, that might be fine, but kiss my fanny, you're online! (no text) - ag - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:56:41 pm EDT
    - * "Hiawatha's Photographing", anyone? [Spoilers] - Manga Shoggoth - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 03:58:54 am EDT
      - * Of that I remember quite clearly now. All I ever replied was "Holy Cow!" (no text) - ag - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:20 am EDT
        
        * I shall let you have your fun, and not make up a bovine pun. If poetic forms yield nothing new, our only hope is bad haiku. (no text) - Manga Shoggoth - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 07:51:18 am EDT
        
        * At least we have this board so fine, to pun away our simple minds! (no text) - ag - Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 07:20:12 pm EDT
        
        * Eternally Lying is to good for you. (no text) - Manga Shoggoth - Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 01:45:03 pm EDT
        
        * You shame, you taunt, and all for naught. I shall stop when told, if you be so bold, just think "It's only ryme" when it couldve been in fact... mime! (no text) - ag - Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 08:32:14 pm EDT
        
        * Better yours than mime... (no text) - Manga Shoggoth - Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 04:43:08 am EDT
* It's not exactly as I remembered it happening, but it's much better told. - Visionary - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 06:41:41 pm EDT
- * Well, that final stanza's quite a lot to live up to. (no text) - HH - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:51:40 pm EDT
- * Someone needs to write the scene when Visionary finds out about the song - preferabaly from Hallie. (no text) - Manga Shoggoth - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 06:55:40 pm EDT
  - * I agree. Proceed. (no text) - HH - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:52:14 pm EDT
* Well, either you can or you canto, I suppose. How long did it take you to put that together? (no text) - Manga Shoggoth - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 06:32:25 pm EDT
- * It took between 5.23 and 5.46pm board time apparently, but I did stop to say goodnight to Sally in the middle of it. (no text) - HH can write cheap iambic pentameter without conscious thought - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:50:19 pm EDT
* They glossed over the part where he tried to escape through the toilet (no text) - killer shrike, impressed nonetheless - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 06:12:47 pm EDT
- * I'm not sure the Caphans ever got to hear about that part. Yet. (no text) - HH - Thu Apr 07, 2005 at 08:50:45 pm EDT