Avalon
"I simply wanted just to save your life
and have you here amongst our brothers
as a friend and knight of our peace,
but no sense or wisdom or persuasion
could bend your mind of perfect obstinacy.
You simply had to risk your life,
your future and our happiness
by volunteering as a victim to the dragon.
And here you are, the dragon-slayer,
having rid our realm of the most evil menace
and is now the first of our knights
and shall be honorary Lord Protector of our Queen.
My friend and brother, I embrace you
with as much affection as I hold for our Queen
and thank you for your boldness
and the grace of our fate
that saved you for our realm and future
to grace it with perpetual harmony.
My friend, you are my equal.
This is the finest day of Camelot
and the triumph of the good will of Avalon,
so golden in this perfect moment,
that I humbly dare express the wish,
that it might show some lasting grace
in perpetual longevity for all eternity."
Thus spoke the King and dubbed Sir Lancelot
the first and highest of our knights
and special lord protector of our Queen
and of the land of everlasting youth and beauty
in perpetual honour, glory and romantic chivalry
in sustained idealism forever.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2011-01-13 at 13:08
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