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Saved by Music

...e gray wolves wont to wander to and fro;
And from the farm yards they carried pigs and calves away,
Which they devoured ravenously, without dismay. 

But, as the story goes, there was a ***** fiddler called old Dick,
Who was invited by a wedding party to give them music,
In the winter time, when the snow lay thick upon the ground,
And the rivers far and near were frozen all around. 

So away went Dick to the wedding as fast as he could go,
Walking cautiously along o'er the cr...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz


Wolf Knife

...ately after he left the knives, the vague, gray
shape of wolves
turned solid, out of the darkness and the snow, and set ravenously
to licking blood from the honed steel.
the double-edge of the knives
so lacerated the tongues of the starved beasts
that their own blood poured
copiously forth
to replenish the dog's blood, and they ate
more furiously than before, while Knatiuk laughed,
and held his sides
laughing.

And I laughed also, perhaps in relief that Providence had deliver...Read more of this...
by Hall, Donald

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