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In Sanguine Ascendancy by Stewart Stafford
Courage is your meat and mead,
For fortune's fighter guaranteed,
Mighty grows the meekest seed,
Hear the charter is now decreed.
Use every instrument of state,
Crown, sceptre, orb and mace,
In virtuous nobility to legislate,
A legacy endowed to celebrate.
A childless king is a man of straw,
No heirs to follow, a dynasty raw,
Take fair hand with beauty awed,
Bloodline safe in a dragon's maw.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.
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Cameron gave a moving picture of a man longing to escape from his trammels, but within the framework of a freedom which was all that a King would be allowed. One evening the King ordered the train to halt beside a beach near Port Elizabeth. Police appeared and roped off a large crowd of onlookers into two halves:
― George VI: The Dutiful King
Down the path from the Royal Train walked a solitary figure in a blue bathrobe, carrying a towel. The sea was a long way off, but he went. And all alone, on the great empty beach, betw...more ”
― George VI: The Dutiful King
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