<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad of Lieges</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Son of our King: When yoemen sailed<br>From Britain to expand her sway,<br>The coward from High venture quailed,<br>The weakling sank beside the way.<br>None save the strong in that far day,<br>The brave, stood clear-eyed at the prow<br>To plan such parts as venturers play.<br>Here be their kin who greet you now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Britain had failed if these had failed -<br>Stout pioneers whose sterner clay,<br>Reckless of that the task entailed,<br>Faced the unknown with no dismay.<br>Out to vast wildernesses they<br>Blazed pain-strewn paths, for axe plough<br>To earn this fruitful century's pay.<br>Here be their kin who greet you now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When o'er an Empire bugles wailed<br>To summon liegemen to the fray,<br>In sons the olden urge prevailed;<br>Nor life, nor love might bid them stay.<br>Unblooded, in red war's array<br>They proved the breed, they kept the vow,<br>They paid the price as liegemen may.<br>Here be their kin who greet you now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357444" data-title="Ballad of Lieges de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Son of our King: When yoemen sailed From Britain to expand her sway, The coward from High venture quailed, The weakling sank beside the way. None save the strong in that far day, The brave, stood clear-eyed at the prow To plan such parts as ventur..."></div> </div> </div>

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