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1765: The Coventry Hangings (Free verse) by Caducus
Within three eyes were blossom and horsehair, 'Pippin' death knells reached a moaning cart where six damned eyes of Coventry blue, would weave themselves white. Through the thousand crowd a barotone nobleman, greeted them by name damned them by moniker, then lips and lifelines pressed before the glockenspiel ascent to death. Within three eyes were 'Baker', 'Drury' and 'Leslie'. A yarn of heads tried to pray God replied in Gibbet, and the slow motion ladder brought August to three buds of our 'Cofa' tree.

Up the ladder: The Call
Down the ladder: Pearl

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Arithmetic Mean: 3.5
Weighted score: 4.928861
Overall Rank: 9197
Posted: September 5, 2007 5:24 AM PDT; Last modified: September 5, 2007 5:27 AM PDT
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[n/a] Caducus @ 88.108.37.117 | 5-Sep-07/5:26 AM | Reply
Pippin and cofa are indiginous trees of coventry 'cofa tree' was where coventry derived.

After these hangings they were treated to a coating of hot tar and left to rot for 35 years - Coventry justice has never been the same since lol.
[n/a] Caducus @ 88.108.37.117 | 5-Sep-07/5:27 AM | Reply
oh and 'coventry blue' was the colour renowned that coventry weavers produced until the early 20th century.

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