DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Mother_Of_The_World , Friday, January 09, 2015, 13:39 @ Mother_Of_The_World

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Haniel Long (1889 - 1956)

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THEY say that dead men tell no tales!

Except of barges with red sails
And sailors mad for nightingales;

Except of jongleurs stretched at ease
Beside old highways through the trees;

Except of dying moons that break
The hearts of lads who lie awake;

Except of fortresses in shade,
And heroes crumbled and betrayed.

But dead men tell no tales, they say!

Except old tales that burn away
The stifling tapestries of day:

Old tales of life, of love and hate,
Of time and space, and will, and fate

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