FReeper Canteen ~ The Legion of Merit ~ March 20, 2006

Dick Dastardly

[AZamericonnie]

HI! yourself sw!:) Hope your having a super day. *Hugs*

[luvie]

Good morning, ES! How're ya?

[AZamericonnie]

I'm thinking your tacos are lookin' a wee bit more appealing! lol Are you off today? *Hugs*

[EsmeraldaA]

[beachn4fun]

Howdy, Sis

Tacos, YUM!

(((HUGS)))

p.s. did the horse get a name?

[EsmeraldaA]

Hi!!

I'm freeping while my boss is not around.......hehehe

[beachn4fun]

LOL

It's one of those I found while roaming through Google

[Lady Jag]

Mondays are great.

If you can't say, "Monday",
you're nowhere, man.

[luvie]

I'm on vacation this week! Yay! I was supposed to be in Arizona this week :o(, but will have to settle for going to my aunt's house--which in itself is a good place to visit. I think I am going to have a guest from Ft. Worth meet me there one day, though, so it will be fun. (((hugs)))

[AZamericonnie]

Good morning dear Es.....Hope your Monday is going smoothly! *Hugs*

[luvie]

...then, we'll keep it vewwy, vewwy quiet. hee-hee!

[EsmeraldaA]

I heard that.....hehehe

hehehe

[tomkow6]

Hey, there, Es!

[luvie]

...or is it afternoon to you now? Anyway.....HI!!!

[Lady Jag]

Mondays don't suck because you can't live without them.

[EsmeraldaA]

It is a Monday......but, I'm in a good mood. ;o)

[Old Sarge]

The room at the tavern echoed like a cavern
For all on this night was still
And a crackling blaze in the hearth took the gaze
And also took the edge off the chill

And sitting together listening to the weather
And basking in the flickering light,
The flame in the hearth showed two heroes of worth,
There sat the Archer and the Knight

The Knight’s had would stray, and on the hilt it did stay
For to bear and to never put down,
When not in his grip, in a sheath on his hip
Rested Champion, the Sword of Renown

The Elf said, “All day you’ve had something to say,
“and you wanted to speak here alone,
You’ve eased, and you’ve rested, your mettle’s been tested,
But your heart on adventure must roam.

“We’ve rescued and fought, and surely you’ve thought
that by now, you have won your renown,
but I know your will, and you do hunger still
Can’t you just once, lay your burden down?”

The Knight for a beat, her eyes did meet
In silence, and then he began,
“We needed to talk, without other folk
within hearing, for I have a plan…

“For as I lay healing, my strength and my feeling
returning in my convalescene,
I had chance to ponder the tales and the wonder
Of our exploits, and all of their essence.

“How is it, that Wrenn, our dearest old friend,
and the Lady whom we all hold high,
know such a great deal of the woe and the weal
of the land and the legends gone by?

“And where else might be, the knowledge that we
Might find and peruse on our own?
As soon as I could, I rose and I stood
And went searching in all the old tomes

“And what d’you suppose, not long after I rose,
Did I find in the sage’s halls?
A book from the past, set in words that would last,
From a time when all races were thralls,

“In an age of the dark, when all the land was stark
And evil held all of its sway,
There once arose a band of heroes
The mightiest ones of their day,

“For the band of such fame, the Star League was their name,
And with power they threw evil down,
And who led that fight, but another brave Knight,
Wielding this!” as he grasped the Sword of Renown!

The Elf was amazed and to the fire she gazed,
Saying “That was from an age long ago,
But the Elves know in song of the heroes, and the wrong
That they righted, and their names all know,

“The wizard, Helga the White, she was possessed of the Sight
and from whom nothing was hidden or blind,
and Dagron, the druid whose form was so fluid
he could assume any shape he could find,

“And then the elf Thavian, the steadfast and brave one,
whose archery skill matched his heart,
but the best of the band, the bravest in the land,
was the paladin knight Everard.”

“And the legends say, that even to this day,
that the Sword has never been found,
that in the final fight, against the powers of Night,
the sword was lost!” Said the Knight, “Until now…”

“But the blade was not lost, but found a new host
thus it came to the Lake Lady’s fen,
and in silence it lay, until when came the day,
when a Champion is needed again.”

“My Elf, I implore, listen, for there is more,
for the Star League left tools for our age,
for the tale comes down, not of just the Renown,
but other things, so said the sage!

“Now, Champion we have found, the great Sword of Renown,
but unless I am very much mistaken,
for with a quest so bold, we can have a relic of old!
I believe I found the Bow of Thavian!!”

Ms. B, now we get to hear from YOU!

[luvie]

Mornin' Tom.

[stand watie]

YEP. hoping the same or BETTER for you/yours.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

nice find.

free dixie,sw