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#Relation of the Victory obtained by the Parliaments Forces under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax (report to parliament)
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The General in Retirement / written 28.08.22
#my writing#new poem! and in a New and Fashionable Format (i.e. printed out stuck in my journal on top of tissue paper then scanned)#the tissue paper is william morris by the way :-D i love william morris. my grandpa loves william morris. we all love william morris#yes this is another fairfax poem. what can i say i love him a lot#also ive been doing dissertation research over the summer and my dissertation is about him so hes been On My Mind#the inspiration for this one comes from a quote i read describing his victory at naseby in [clears throat] A More Particular and Exact#Relation of the Victory obtained by the Parliaments Forces under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax (report to parliament)#in which the author wrote that 'before the fight his former lookes were like a dead man to what he had when he went to engage'#and that made me Think a lot. i will not go into more detail as the poem basically Is the more detail but i wanted to include the#inspiration somewhere even if only in the tags (for tag perusers to find. secret contextual information as a gift for you)#i wrote this whilst i was camping this past week :-) you can imagine me sitting by a lake in a field in herefordshire with my notebook#i hope the scan turns out ok i had to wrestle with my printer to get it to cooperate and even then it's a bit blurry in places#anyway! i hope you are all doing well my very dear friends :-) i love you all very much. shaking your hands with good affection#no doubt when i post this i will find 10000000000 mistakes. but no matter i will cope [said through gritted teeth]
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