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"Cherish Armour" She wears Her armour, LOVE - draped like chain mail shields You with Her heart When She is drowning She will throw You to the sure safe for Your future And She will cry of lost children morbid oblivion, damnation and desolation Her tears flood wider than any vast deep ocean Hidden behind Her 'damns' of Courage and devotion Her sheer "will" burns steely evocation Deep through skin to blood and bone You take Her Lead - brandish Your sword in quiet strength You march on, where She stands invisible beside You In cold halls accused of absence You take all Her stories they are all Your rosaries, gold crucifixes, silver, diamonds and pearls And when the time comes, You are no longer a mere "Girl", My sweet unwavering novitiate Warrior Your mother is in Your mirror You see Her standing proud and tall through Your windows Her mother stands beside Her and Her mother and Hers and Hers and Hers You have a vast powerful army standing there beside You And way out in front - there stands stoic stalwart You - One Room - a fierce, noble, most capable, strong loyal legion surrounds You You lead with Your genuflection too, on bended knee Your head bows to Lux Vitae there is Your true guide a paradox through time They travel from 7th level to be beside you A portal through the womb More than 3 Women in armour standing beside You Daughters of Mothers Mothers of Daughters “Cherish your Armour” Time does not truly leave You Through Black Wars of Roses The "True" colour reigns golden, and blue Her Love that is - "All of Her", in You it lives on and remains living on and on and on Cherish Your amour... through all the long dark nights and all of Your living and dying days in You it lives on and remains living on and on and on LUX VITAE always beside You always within You You are loved and you are strong (Lovejoy-Burton/May 2018) (Mother’s Day) llb-gvlm ljb-llb-klb-mlb vc-llb-klb-mlb "Life" (Extended) / Ludovico Einaudi https://youtu.be/RMvuEhDl_uo 1. https://www.grammar.com/armour_vs._armor 2. Amour/French: Love 3. LUX VITAE: Burton Coat of Arms. Meaning: "The Light is My Guide" In Latin, meaning, "Light of Life" 4. Elizabeth I & Nan Bullen http://beingbess.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/death-could-not-separate-them-how.html 5. "Anne Boleyn - A Mother Remembered" http://www.historyinanhour.com/2011/08/18/anne-boleyn-a-mother-remembered/ 6. "Unprofessional Translation - A Royal Child Translator" http://unprofessionaltranslation.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/royal-child-translator.html 7. "Elizabeth's Glass" https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeths-Glass-Dedicatory-Conclusion-DEDICATORY/dp/0803242166 8. Full Text "The Mirror of the Sinful Soul", Commentary & English Translation (including original handwritten translation by Queen Elizabeth I, at 11 yrs of age, 1544) of Queen Marguerite of Navarre's Poem: "Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse". https://archive.org/stream/mirrorofsinfulso00marg#page/n0/mode/2up 9. French for easy translation/Google Translate https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Miroir_de_l%E2%80%99%C3%A2me_p%C3%A9cheresse 10. The Mystery of the Chequers Ring: https://tudorfaces.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/the-chequers-locket-ring-mother-and.html https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/the-mystery-of-the-chequers-ring-article-and-giveaway-by-sandra-byrd/
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