An Excerpt from Fair Aumarchen

[ArborGold 85]

 

Aumarchen

Summation of The Johanese Restoration

Spoken by the Noble Prince Johan After the Coup.

 

 

“Such foul traitor can be so plain

and so liberally disperse the death they sow?

Upon his royal head once sat a crown

and where his power felt, just was that reign.

In this late hour, for it is midnight,

traitorous treason rings out those princely windows.

 

I was four years younger when the same windows

cascaded merriment, cheers, and churchly bells plain

as every man heard them till late night.

Yet, renegades reap not, for they do not sow

and tending to their own, not watering His princely oak with rain.

Aspiring upstarts, wretches, devious claimants to his crown!

 

None but he can wear that sweet crown

and gather common admiration from his window!

It will be the tears and wails of the people that will reign

supreme and condemn such apostates to a devilish plane!

Be his death so,

regicidal turncoats will have new hempen necklaces tonight!”

 

Many years imposters befell fair Aumarchen. Knights

swore thorny oaths of betrayal to a new hollow crown.

Young King Johan sowed

in distant lands, gazing out tall windows

at his amassing arms, assembling in the plain

below, above him a steady rain.

 

“Mark down my reign

as being reclaimed this good night,

for as all men may bear witness to my plain

justice with which I shall recover my father’s regal crown.

For their obscene deeds, find high windows

and defenestrate fiends, be their timely end so.”

 

Battle ensued, as men of Aumarchen so

profaned their new king’s reign.

Above, in slits and windows,

arrows poured, yet by the fall of night

Johan found, upon his head, his birthright crown.

Ascend his highness to the throne from the plane.

 

Bells once again struck from princely windows through those fair nights.

Yet as for nature’s cruelty, so short a reign

he would have. Crowns are fixations of jealousy if they rest with men who speak plainly.