Lo! And
it was in the year of Our Lord,
Ninety-six and nineteen
hundred,
That the noble Childe
of Christendom
Patrick Wood, begat
unto the Voide
A half score of
Warrior Trubadors.
And their name,
pluck'd from
The Great Muse's
chaste bosom,
Was Looking For
an Echo.
And the Lord did grin...
Yea! As the
Serpent of Time biteth
His own barbed tail,
so did their
Sweete melodie crush
their enemies
Before them.
And They, mighty
Trubadors of
the Valley, did conquer
Englande, and Scotsland,
and Wales,
And they did
hear the lamentations of the women.
O Magnum Mysterium!
Ex patre Natum!
Rejoice! O
ye whose heart doth
thirst for the Truth
of Holiness.
The Knights who
Sought Sight of the Echo,
Didst slay the ogre,
Billy of the Joel.
And they didst set
off on a Holy Crusade
Through Straassburg,
and ye Olde Salem Towne.
Yet as the Serpent
gnaweth away His livelihoode
So was Childe Patrick thrust into the Abyss.
Hwaet!
The Knights who sang "Chimbadim"
Bestowed upon Childe
Peter Colbert of the Virgin Shores
The most Holy Crowne
of Musicall Lordship.
And Childe the King
Sir Peter shed new bloode
In the Crusades
to the Darke Mount of Afton.
And the mysticall
fog didst smite
Their gallant Lord's
powder-blue steed.
The dragon of Myst
lopped the noble steed's leg asunder.
The Knights were much disheartened.
Yea! The Knight,
Sir Hop-Singh
Of goode Charlotte's
Shire, son of Jin-Pangh,
Son of Wu-Tangh,
brother to Irn-Lungh,
Saviour of the Wicker
People, in the Days of Yore
In the Golden Age
of the Olde Ones,
To the Honour of
the Echo Clan from Yonder Salem Towne
Didst hasten to
change their Lorde's Most noble Valve Stem.
And there was much
rejoicing.
Lo! In celebration
of the Knights'
Most laborious conquests,
Sir Chris,
Who Turned back
the Bull, didst decree
To all the Holy
nations of a Capella that much goode sport,
An Acappellacarnivella,
wouldst transpire a
Fortnight from the
Resurrection of Our Lorde.
Sir Sweete of Lodi
didst engrave a warrior's frock.
And the Lady Knights of Smythe didst rule Valhalla.
Forsoothe! Goode
Sir Will of the Farme-Keepe Clan,
Shall be thrust
into steadfast service at the Right Hand
Of their Lorde as Archduke
of Olin Sectionals.
The Childe King
Sir Peter didst decree
The Most Holy Knights
Seeking Sight of the Echo,
Shall, God willing,
with no uncertainty,
Conquer and rule
with hard hearts and much treachery,
Your next Party,
Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, or Schoole Assembly.
Lorde in Thy mercy let your countenance shine down upon this,
Their most noble and holy quest. Amen.
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