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Novel: Fields of Athenry
Genre: Adventure
65,428 words so far   Winner!

About Bob

Location: Haunchyville, WI

Home Region:
United States :: Wisconsin :: Madison

Age:15

Website: http://www.mllama.blogspot.com

Favorite novels: Lord of the Rings, WWZ, Tom Sawyer, Lord Raven's Gambit, 1984

Favorite writers: Tolkein, Max Broox, Koushun Takami, Tad Williams, Edgar Allen Poe, Matthew Pearl

Favorite music: Real Mckenzies, Wolfstone, Thrice, Dropkick Murphies, Flogging Molly

Non-noveling interests: Fireworks, Fencing, Hunting

Joined date: October 16, 2006

Years done NaNoWriMo:
'06

Years won NaNoWriMo:
'06

NaNoWriMo posts: 30

NaNoWriMo buddies: 9

 


Fields of Athenry
an excerpt

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Finished November 29, 2007, 3:21 A.M.

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