Name: B/ A Comrades Fitting Poem
Duration: P00H03M57S
Description: Original lyrical ballad by Guillaume de Poitiers, "Comrades I Shall Write a Fitting Poem..." performed in Saint Thomas chapel in the midst of a snow covered graveyard.

B/ A Comrades Fitting Poem

from The Feast of Fools by Friendless Churches

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Original lyrical ballad by Guillaume de Poitiers, "Comrades I Shall Write a Fitting Poem..." performed in Saint Thomas chapel in the midst of a snow covered graveyard.

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Comrades, I shall write a fitting poem,
one with more folly than sense,
all laden with love, joy and youth.
And let he be called a knave, who doesn't understand it,
or learn it, for that matter, by heart:
people who like poetry hardly part from love.
I have two horses I can saddle well and gladly
they are good and brave and fit for fighting,
and I can't keep them both because they can't stand each other.
If I could tame them as I wish,
I wouldn't take my gear elsewhere,
because I would be mounted better than anyone else.
The one is the fastest of the mountaineers
but it has been acting fiercely oddly for a long time
and it is so fierce and savage that it refuses to be bridled.
The other was reared around Confolens
and you never saw a prettier one, by my troth:
such one can't be traded for gold nor for silver.
Because I gave it to its master as a filly
but we agreed to the condition
that, if he had it for one year, I would have it for a century.
Knights, advise me about this conundrum:
-never was I [so] troubled by a choice-
I don't know which one to keep to, that of dame Agnes or that of dame Arsen.

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from The Feast of Fools, released December 13, 2022

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Friendless Churches Bristol, UK

[Roman Catholic]
[Apophatic Aesthetics]
[Folk Horror Electronics]
[Grotesque Body via Grail Quest]
[Medievalism Martyrology Mariology]

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