The kingdom devoid of sun,
The netherworld.
Looking to the sub lunar,
The Knight said to the Crown!
“Our Travel accounts, Sire
With the ballads of their conquest
Filled with maps
Latitudes and longitudes
They boasted
“How quick we were?”
The visit was small
But it was imperial
Like rivers merged with the sea,
We merged with them
The Byzantine,
The land of the brainy!
Ha… still gets me,
With their philosophies,
Tongue twisters to us
Hard to say
Easy to forget
But always quarrelsome
They differ and defer,
Easy for us to infer,
They are sure to suffer.
That entire Old world,
Now missing those beautiful steppes.
Ah… the Venetians,
Boastful but calm,
Pretentious and chaotic
Easiest they were to claim.
The empire where the sun never sets,
The hardest to crack
Yet we won!
Magnificent Marseille1
Strong Le Mistral2, that le vieux port3
Which welcomed us as her lover.
Finally the third…
Rats simply rats Sire…
Running hith and thith4
Their poverty was infamous
Their resistances were famous
Poor chaps…
Swamps of degenerates,
They Lie Terror stricken
Between the headless Crowns
After the wars we missed the mark
Development – The New World!
We receded from many.
We still have some,
In the third and the dark.
Not good sire…
Our Empire should grow
The crown should be vast
But they are connected now…
Believing they are uncolonized!”
For this the Crown Smiled

Calmly he proclaimed,

“Connection is the key!
We will join them…
Let’s spread
Among them
As them
For them
By Them.
Colonization of some sort should go on
They will try to break it
But fear not,
The crown is always with you My Knight!
Let’s March from the East…”

GK

19/03/2020

Notes
Marseille – Marseille, a port city in southern France, has been a crossroads of immigration. It was founded by the Greeks.
Mistral – strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean.
Vieux port – also known as Vieux – Port de Marseille, is an ancient port in France. It is situated in the town of Marseille.
Hith and thith – Hither and Thither just improvised.