By Amanda Pizzolatto
Word Count: 318
Rating: G (suitable for all audiences)
Summary: A poem about a Scottish Princess and her beloved, a Viking, based on Sir Walter’s Scott’s poem “The English Lady and the Knight”
It was a Scottish princess fair
In the sun shining on DunBroch wall
And she would marry a Viking heir
For they made Love lord of all.
Blithely they talked of future days
As the sun shone on Dunbroch wall
To help them through the waiting phase
For Love was still lord of all.
Her sire gave gowns and jewelry fine
Of the sun shining on Dunbroch hall
His false brother gave a flask of wine
To stand against Love being lord of all.
For they would bring peace between the lands
Like the sun shining on DunBroch wall
And the heir refused his brother’s demands
To let him become the lord of all
It was not long before they did see
As the sun set on Dunbroch hall
The false brother’s evil and treachery
In his attempt to become lord of all.
She is still, the Scottish princess fair
As the sun set on Dunbrach hall
Still in the arms of the Viking heir
For they had made Love lord of all.
Justice came swift for the false brother
While the sun set on Dunbroch hall
And leaving his duties to his mother
So Love would still be lord of all.
Taking to the skies on his dragon steed
Ere the sun set on Dunbroch hall
Traveling far and wide to fill a need
So Love could stay as lord of all.
Then he fought the false dragon king
In the rising sun at Dunbroch hall
By defeating him gave the Scots wing
So Love would stay the lord of all.
But he succumbed to his grief
As the sun set on Dunbroch hall
This young lad, this mighty chief
To Death and Love, the lords of all.
And now their weary souls are free
To watch the sun on Dunbroch wall
And knowing that wherever they be
That Love was still the lord of all.