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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391147" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad of the Goodly Fere</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all<br>For the priests and the gallows tree?<br>Aye lover he was of brawny men,<br>O' ships and the open sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they came wi' a host to take Our Man<br>His smile was good to see,<br>&quot;First let these go!&quot; quo' our Goodly Fere,<br>&quot;Or I'll see ye damned,&quot; says he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye he sent us out through the crossed high spears<br>And the scorn of his laugh rang free,<br>&quot;Why took ye not me when I walked about<br>Alone in the town?&quot; says he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh we drank his &quot;Hale&quot; in the good red wine<br>When we last made company,<br>No capon priest was the Goodly Fere<br>But a man o' men was he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ha' seen him drive a hundred men<br>Wi' a bundle o' cords swung free,<br>That they took the high and holy house<br>For their pawn and treasury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'll no' get him a' in a book I think<br>Though they write it cunningly;<br>No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly Fere<br>But aye loved the open sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they think they ha' snared our Goodly Fere<br>They are fools to the last degree.<br>&quot;I'll go to the feast,&quot; quo' our Goodly Fere,<br>&quot;Though I go to the gallows tree.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Ye ha' seen me heal the lame and blind,<br>And wake the dead,&quot; says he,<br>&quot;Ye shall see one thing to master all:<br>'Tis how a brave man dies on the tree.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A son of God was the Goodly Fere<br>That bade us his brothers be.<br>I ha' seen him cow a thousand men.<br>I have seen him upon the tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cried no cry when they drave the nails<br>And the blood gushed hot and free,<br>The hounds of the crimson sky gave tongue<br>But never a cry cried he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ha' seen him cow a thousand men<br>On the hills o' Galilee,<br>They whined as he walked out calm between,<br>Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the sea that brooks no voyaging<br>With the winds unleashed and free,<br>Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret<br>Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A master of men was the Goodly Fere,<br>A mate of the wind and sea,<br>If they think they ha' slain our Goodly Fere<br>They are fools eternally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ha' seen him eat o' the honey-comb<br>Sin' they nailed him to the tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q>
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For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.

When they came wi' a host to take Our Man
His smile was good to see,
&quot;First let these go!&quot; quo' our G..."></div>
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