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(Williams Michael)
Michael Williams
The Oath and the Measure
Chapter 1
A Surprising Banquet
… out of the thatched and clutching shires,
Where his sword first tried the last cruel dances
And awoke to the shires forever retreating, his
The banked flight of the Kingfisher always
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
"Return this man to Huma's breast,
Grant to him a warrior's rest
Free from the smothering clouds of wars
"Let the last surge of his breath
Above the dreams of ravens where
Then let his shade to Huma rise
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
"The sun,
of all our heavens,
"and leaves
spangled with fireflies,
"The leaves
they blaze into ash
"and birds
and wheel to the north
"The day grows dark,
but we
green fire upon
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
"The wind
By season, by moon,
"The breath
of trees, of mankind,
"Now Sleep,
lulls in the trees
"The Age,
of men and their stories,
"But we,
in poem and glory,
"The Age,
the thousand lives
go to their graves.
"But we,
the people long
fade from the song.
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
"Always before, you could explain
And how the dark embraced the rain
"Already I forget those things,
The mining of a thousand springs,
"Now winter is my memory,
So every spring from now will be
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Epilogue
"Out of the thatched and clutching shires,
where his sword first tried
shires forever retreating, his greatness a marshfire,
him…"
… out of the thatched and clutching shires,
Out of the grave and furrow, furrow and grave,
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