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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.
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