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Hcs 4 'To Obtain It, Laurie With Her Dear Life Paid'

FOUR To obtain it, Laurie with her Dear Life paid, She did not count the cost, as cowards do, But gave her Heart, to be re-forged and made, A Diamond Heart… Pure, Innocent and True… Into a misericorde, blade meant to end With Mercy, Dark Ones… Those whose Time has come Who have made Life a Misery, and bend The courses of Reality – they hum Not, nor do cook in their pajamas, They are Diseased with Hate and Cruelty Is just another tactic – do their mamas Pray for them? That’s why she comes! To nihilists, she brings the coup-de-grace* And carries the repentant over the floss… *the coup-de-grace was not only a merciful blow with a dagger, designed to swiftly and painlessly end the life of a suffering knight, who could not be saved, this name was also used for the dagger, itself, which was designed for such a purpose. Another name for the coup-de-grace is 'misericorde'

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