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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Iron Wedding Rings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these days of peace and money, free to all the Commonweal, <br>There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding rings of steel; <br>Wedding rings of steel and iron, worn on wrinkled hands and old, <br>And the wearers would not give them, not for youth nor wealth untold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the days of black oppression, when the best abandoned hope, <br>And all Buckland crouched in terror of the prison and the rope, <br>Many fair young wives in Buckland prayed beside their lonely beds <br>For the absent ones who knew not where to lay their outlawed heads. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a whisper went through Buckland, to the rebels only known, <br>That the man across the border had a chance to hold his own. <br>There were men that came in darkness, quiet, grim and travel-worn, <br>And, by twos, and threes, the young men stole away to join Kinghorn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slipping powder-horns and muskets from beneath the floors and thatch, <br>There were boys who kissed their mothers ere they softly dropped the latch; <br>There were hunters' wives in backwoods who sat strangely still and white <br>Till the dawn, because their men-folk went a-hunting in the night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the rebels needed money, and so, through the Buckland hills, <br>Came again, by night, the gloomy men of monosyllables; <br>And the ladies gave their jewels to be smuggled out and sold, <br>And the homely wives of Buckland gave their wedding rings of gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a Buckland smith in secret, and in danger, in his shed <br>Made them rings of baser metals (from the best he had, to lead), <br>To be gilt and worn to market, or to meetings where they.prayed, <br>Lest the spies should get an inkling, and the husbands be betrayed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a silence fell on Buckland; there was peace throughout the land, <br>And a loyalty that puzzled all the captains in command; <br>There was too much Law and Order for the men who weren't blind, <br>And the greatest of the king's men wasn't easy in his mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were hunting rebels, certes, and the troops were understood <br>To be searching for a stronghold like a needle in a wood; <br>But whene'er the king was prayed for in the meeting-houses, then <br>It was strange with how much unction ancient sinners cried &quot;Ah-men!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till at last, when all was quiet, through the gloomy Buckland hills <br>Once again there came those furtive men of monosyllables; <br>And their message was – &quot;Take warning what the morrow may reveal, <br>Death and Freedom may be married with a wedding ring of steel.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the morning, from the marshes, rose the night-mist, cold and damp, <br>From the shipping in the harbour and the sleeping royal camp; <br>From the lanes and from the by-streets and the high streets of the town, <br>And above the hills of Buckland, where the rebel guns looked down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the first one sent a message to the camp to fight or yield, <br>And the wintry sun looked redly on a bloody battlefield; <br>Till the man from 'cross the border marched through Buckland once again, <br>With a charter for the people and ten thousand fighting men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are ancient dames in Buckland with old secrets to reveal, <br>Wearing wedding rings of iron, wearing wedding rings of steel; <br>And their tears drop on the metal when their thoughts are far away <br>In the past where their young husbands died on Buckland field that day. <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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There are ancient dames in Buckland wearing wedding rings of steel; 
Wedding rings of steel and iron, worn on wrinkled hands and old, 
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