The sound of horse hooves gallop across plains As the boys with their trumpets play their refrains In their gleaming metal armor polished bright Charge rows and rows of the mounted knights Forward on in martial order towards the rising sun With spurs and cheers they bring the horses to a run Lowering swords and raising up shields They head forward into the killing fields The call of battle for god and kings For country and the honor it brings To rage and clash in noble pursuit with harsh cries To fall to the fall back to earth where the body dies Locked in mortal combat with death or victory Against those fighting to secure a place in history Where the only thing that matters is written By those who ride out of the melee unsmitten In the truth from the mouths and pen Of the soldiers on that day who win
For experimental Sunday this week, I attempted a heroic couplet. While not in iambic pentameter, I hope it captures the spirit.
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