Helena, the Frontier State

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Helena, the Frontier State

 

Ah, Helena, the frontier city!

With its strange, furless fashions -

Oh how I feel for our senators with pity,

Without carrion black or 'Haenser' passions.

 

Pioneers of an age, trudging for pearls,

Our young men venture up to the south.

Bereft of maidens, they court exotic girls,

Drawn deep into danger's smiling mouth;

 

So, far from the pleasant heartlands,

Far from their safe homes in the north,

They're sucked into unknown quicksands

Which only a frontier state brings forth.

 

Ah Helena, what an odd place!

So far from normal, civilised Haense!

 

Written by the royal poet

Dietrich van Jungingen

-Writer and Philosopher-

 

 

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[GoodGuyMatt 7113]

Antonius Varoche read the poem with squinted eyes and an occasional raised brow every line and then. ”...what an odd place!” he recited to himself after finishing his reading.