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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ferryman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In April, back in twenty-one<br>Inside the Castle Myrmidon, <br>I worked the Master's stables<br>And I groomed Milady's mare.<br>The Baroness De Ville would roam<br>The country on her chestnut roan, <br>And I would lead her safely home<br>And tend to her despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They kept her close and under key<br>In fear that she might turn and flee, <br>But she was trapped by geography<br>Beside the River Styx, <br>The river turned and turned about<br>Confined her where the bank ran out<br>And often there, I heard her shout: <br>‘Save me from Asterix! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Knight, Sir Asterix had planned<br>To ask her for her maiden hand, <br>But she had turned in terror, and<br>Had flown up to her room…<br>There in the tower she stayed locked in<br>Until the Knight left Myrmidon, <br>Enraged, he swore that she'd be won, <br>By Whitsun afternoon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her uncle raged: ‘This cannot be, <br>You can't treat him haphazardly, <br>I'll see you wed to Asterix<br>Or else I'll turn you out! '<br>‘I'd rather be a beggar first, <br>Bereft of food, unslaked of thirst, <br>At least I know what would be worst, '<br>I heard Milady shout! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The master was Sir Oswald Gray<br>Of temper mean, that ruled the day<br>He held her fortune locked away<br>She said she didn't care, <br>The slight allowance that he gave<br>Was not enough to spend or save<br>But she was young, and she was brave<br>And stood up to him there! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They locked her in the tower room<br>In shadows, in the deepest gloom, <br>She wailed all night, as in a tomb<br>And tore her auburn hair! <br>I took her tit-bits in the night<br>Pushed through the grill, to her delight<br>And there she told me of her plight…<br>She loved Sir Gordon Ware! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir Gordon lived at Castle Pride<br>Some miles across the countryside, <br>But cut off by the river wide, <br>(She cried in her despair) .<br>But stories of this Asterix<br>His alchemy, his darker fits<br>With murder not the least of it, <br>Had terrorised her there! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wandered to the river bank<br>To where an ancient boat had sank, <br>And there I met a Ferryman, <br>A dwarf with one good eye: <br>‘What brings you to the riverside? '<br>He looked out at the countryside<br>And turned his blind eye high and wide; <br>I shuddered, fit to die! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I told him of Milady's plight<br>How she wept bitterly at night<br>And would escape, if she but might; <br>The Ferryman said: ‘See…<br>Bring me three crowns of gold, my friend, <br>The lady, to the river's bend, <br>What they don't know, they'll never mend, <br>My oars will make her free! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Whitsun, she was dressed so fine<br>In wedding lace, and crepe design, <br>I held her hand, and she held mine<br>Out to the stable door; <br>I'd saddled up the roan for her<br>She leapt aboard, and called me ‘sir'<br>And thanked me to the river's spur, <br>The Ferryman said ‘Whoa! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For back, and at the Castle Gate<br>There came a flash, a coach and eight<br>That raced to claim her heart, too late, <br>Though Asterix screamed: ‘No! '<br>She leapt the ferry with a laugh, <br>I passed the Kronors to the dwarf<br>And soon they swirled beyond the wharf, <br>Out in the undertow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Asterix then left me there<br>With blood congealed, and through my hair, <br>And told me, I should never dare<br>His country, now or soon; <br>But of Milady, I could see<br>She had escaped her misery, <br>And so my heart was light and free<br>Until that afternoon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A peasant told me, passing by<br>That I had need to sit and cry, <br>I asked about the Ferryman<br>And this is what he said: <br>‘There hasn't been a Ferryman<br>At this point of the river plan<br>Since ever Adam was a man, <br>The Ferryman is dead! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘He got caught in the undertow<br>And floated down and down below, <br>The raging current took him so<br>And drowned him in the Styx.'<br>At times though, there's a troglodyte<br>Who boats here on a Whitsun night, <br>They say he is a dreadful sight, <br>Brought low by Asterix! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was, they say, a fulsome page<br>That Asterix attacked in rage, <br>And worked his alchemy to stunt<br>His body, and his sight, <br>Since when he's roamed the riverside<br>In search of someone else's bride, <br>One kiss may just reverse the tide<br>Of Asterix's spite! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now on evenings, when I go<br>To sit beside the river flow<br>I hear a voice to ghostly go: <br>‘Of love, I've drunk my fill! '<br>And then I see the coach and eight<br>In flight and through the Castle Gate, <br>Where Asterix stares out in hate, <br>He's looking for her still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">16 February,2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Inside the Castle Myrmidon, 
I worked the Master's stables
And I groomed Milady's mare.
The Baroness De Ville would roam
The country on her chestnut roan, 
And I would lead her safely home
And tend to her despair.

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