Years go by in yearning
Baroness Brianna Je Nell Aislynn of Blue Shadows
fallen in Fall Crown Tourney, A.S. XLII
Years go by in yearning, oh beloved Caid:
My fate on your fortune’s turning, my beloved Caid.
I serve you with all my honor,
For I know you are discerning, my beloved Caid.
My dream is The Dream in its glory,
I’m not in this for the earnings — for beloved Caid.
“What more can I do in devotion?”
This thought is forever returning to beloved Caid.
As a flower bud, it opens –
The ultimate way of serving my beloved Caid.
As a battle cry, it thunders,
The dawn of my new morning, oh beloved Caid!
I reach for the crown, straining
To give you my all, not reserving, my beloved Caid!
For you I will fall in battle.
My first death I won’t be mourning, oh beloved Caid.
And so I serve you as always,
And ‘Mila will sing of my journey for beloved Caid!
- — Lady Liudmila Vladimirova doch’
- ... is a daughter of impoverished boyar family under the rule of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich. She is married to a foreigner, but is blessedly allowed to avoid unseemly Western clothes and unseemly Western ways. She is, however, trying to venture into strange foreign verse such as the ghazal.
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