lauantai 21. tammikuuta 2023

A DEAD KING IS A USEFUL KING INDEED

The way the English praise
'prince Hal' almost makes you forget
how their royalty descends from those
who killed his line.

To Elizabeth I and James I
Shakespeare wrote his plays,
who owed everything to Edward IV,

and Edward he made very sure
that no seed of Henry V would
remain on this God-forsaken Earth.

Remember, when inscribing
her line, it was York, not Lancaster,
which Elizabeth claimed.
Alas, champion of Agincourt.

21.01.2023


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