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author | Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> | 2013-04-16 19:46:41 +0400 |
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committer | Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> | 2013-04-16 19:46:41 +0400 |
commit | a50086d174658914d4d6462afbc83b02825b1f5b (patch) | |
tree | e8daa1c7bf678222cf351445179837bed7db3a72 /tests-clar/resources/renames/songof7cities.txt | |
parent | 5b9fac39d8a76b9139667c26a63e6b3f204b3977 (diff) | |
parent | f124ebd457bfbf43de3516629aaba5a279636e04 (diff) |
Merge branch 'development'v0.18.0
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diff --git a/tests-clar/resources/renames/songof7cities.txt b/tests-clar/resources/renames/songof7cities.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4210ffd5c --- /dev/null +++ b/tests-clar/resources/renames/songof7cities.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +The Song of Seven Cities +------------------------ + +I WAS Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. +Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from afar. +Ivory their outposts were--the guardrooms of them gilded, +And garrisoned with Amazons invincible in war. + +All the world went softly when it walked before my Cities-- +Neither King nor Army vexed my peoples at their toil, +Never horse nor chariot irked or overbore my Cities, +Never Mob nor Ruler questioned whence they drew their spoil. + +Banded, mailed and arrogant from sunrise unto sunset; +Singing while they sacked it, they possessed the land at large. +Yet when men would rob them, they resisted, they made onset +And pierced the smoke of battle with a thousand-sabred charge. + +So they warred and trafficked only yesterday, my Cities. +To-day there is no mark or mound of where my Cities stood. +For the River rose at midnight and it washed away my Cities. +They are evened with Atlantis and the towns before the Flood. + +Rain on rain-gorged channels raised the water-levels round them, +Freshet backed on freshet swelled and swept their world from sight, +Till the emboldened floods linked arms and, flashing forward, drowned them-- +Drowned my Seven Cities and their peoples in one night! + +Low among the alders lie their derelict foundations, +The beams wherein they trusted and the plinths whereon they built-- +My rulers and their treasure and their unborn populations, +Dead, destroyed, aborted, and defiled with mud and silt! + +The Daughters of the Palace whom they cherished in my Cities, +My silver-tongued Princesses, and the promise of their May-- +Their bridegrooms of the June-tide--all have perished in my Cities, +With the harsh envenomed virgins that can neither love nor play. + +I was Lord of Cities--I will build anew my Cities, +Seven, set on rocks, above the wrath of any flood. +Nor will I rest from search till I have filled anew my Cities +With peoples undefeated of the dark, enduring blood. + +To the sound of trumpets shall their seed restore my Cities +Wealthy and well-weaponed, that once more may I behold +All the world go softly when it walks before my Cities, +And the horses and the chariots fleeing from them as of old! + + -- Rudyard Kipling |