syn@uo-vax1.UUCP (syn) (01/29/85)
Hard times came. One year we planted cabbages in the rose garden, the next it was onions in the borders and lettuce where the pansies bloomed. Survival is an adventure. One can admire a dunghill as well as the flame-grained wood that warms one. Matilda's tapestry was made as much to keep out drafts as to honor the king. We eat with peasants now, proud to be their equals in work. If example does not teach them, will speech? We rise early. I did not know what we had lost until I went to the lake at dawn and a young knight on a white horse came wading the white breath of water. His helm was silver and his eye blue as morning. When I had bound the rushes he asked me, nodding at the tower-- "Is your mistress fair?" syn *Help, folks, I can't figure out how to return people's messages. Thanks for the kind words, though.