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LOYALTY AND ROYALTY REQUIRED It was castle building time A home for a charming prince and a princess who was sometimes aloof Time for royalty to have a roof A ceiling should the sky fall in Or if a falling star fell on them t’would be a sin And they could keep that celestial sign in a jug with a top of well forged tin To keep that keepsake in But as a falling star who has no wings to fly The prince and princess had need of a castle built castle high So those peasants built all the walls brick by mortared brick Because it was time to build a castle grand For the rulers of a pleasant land Wherein no one required an election or a vote They were all too busy creating the castle’s mote Where great lizards will seek pray and guard the pair quite well And of course on top of the spire was a single silver bell It tolled to tell the people they had all done well But the very next morning before the mortar had set It rained down as if to say “for eons everything here will be wet” And then the cracks started to crumble And bricks began to tumble As the bell and spire sliced the air and both to the ground fell And looking back now, the people hadn’t done so very well And thusly was gone what many had built While the townsfolk felt only unwarranted guilt Because the princess left her once princely domain Which left the prince in pretty much perpetual pain The habitants recall before the rains came and it was surely and certainly sublime When the town’s folk gathered up what they required because it had been castle building time © 2011.….Phreepoetree
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