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Click hereLament, lament, I heard upon a day
Ealdgyth mourning, mourning her lost Lord
and the cry went up when he was lost
and could not be found.
So they came to us, the monks.
A Christian burial they said,
but none could say which was him
so bloody had it been at the end.
I shall not forget the stench,
and did not think we could bear it.
But for love of him, she did,
and for love of her, I did.
That bloody field at Senlac Hill
where old England died
and the houscarls fought
to a bitter end with no hope.
So we imitated them. We walked
with no hope. But where the fight
had been thickest, there we searched
amidst the shambles and the blood.
At length, as the shadows began to fall
she found what was left of him.
The great scar on his chest told us
it was her lost love, great Harold.
And she kissed the remains, she shed
bitter tears, and wept as the sun
went down the sky and
the stars began to shine.
We knelt the long night with him
in that cold dark place, or what
there was left, after the brutes
had hacked and cut and thrust.
She wept, and I wept, and the salt
tears marked us as we kissed
and I cared not who saw, for I knew
that God is love and I love her.
We stood, we two, as they buried him
near Senlac Hill
where all fell into the eternal dark
and all hope was lost forever.
We embraced, we two, and we cried
for in him died all our hopes, and our
fears were but half of what really came
after that bitter day.
But we had done our duty,
our love had prevailed
oh but that stench and those
sights will haunt me to the end.
The days of men are short,
and no bards will tell his tale,
for the victors sing and the
vanquished are silent
But there will come a day when
Harold will be remembered as a great
and lordly king. But we knew him as Lord
and as Lover, and that is best.
As a good poem should, it leaves much room for the imagination,
leave so much for ones imagination scares the psyche TK U MLJ LV NV
and an epilog of what did happen. TK U MLJ LV NV