Óïn Ursüm
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Talossan Since: 3-10-2009
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Post by Óïn Ursüm on Oct 18, 2018 7:33:53 GMT -6
This is actually an old poem I wrote in 2012 or thereabouts but just found on my computer. I didn't remember writing it. It's related to Cézembre so I thought I would post it here. --- Poet Laureate Hic domus, haec patria est.
A fisher's daughter surveys the sea
and Saint-Malo's majestic battlements,
alone on Cézembre sand in churchly shade
where those of old once kept the sacraments.
Ruins, yet standing still and calm
in spite of purple tyrants, and of time.
When pulled by the arms of war,
captured and rent in twain was she,
unknown and uninhabited until
Corïu and the King declared her free:
Sovereign kingdom, freedom-facing;
refuge point and hall of feasting,
Her salvage from meagre desolation
foretold the legend of the nation.
From destruction and division
came rejoicing, reuniting, reunision,
Talossans to the ends of the earth
rejoicing in a moment of new birth. |
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Lüc da Schir
Senator for Benito
If Italy wins a Six Nations match I will join the Zouaves
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Talossan Since: 3-21-2012
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Post by Lüc da Schir on Oct 18, 2018 8:02:19 GMT -6
Impressive! Now you only need a tune to set it to, and you'd have a perfect provincial anthem.
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Post by Thor Deyaert on Oct 22, 2018 17:46:50 GMT -6
I urge everybody with musical talent to try to make accompanying music. Otherwise we can instead of a provincial anthem, have a provincial poem.
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Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial
Batetz las maes, perf. —— Freelance glheþineir (I only accept Worthless Internet Points™ as payment)
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Talossan Since: May 12, 2014
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Post by Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on Oct 23, 2018 5:12:17 GMT -6
I expect a Talossan version of this as well!
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Ián Tamorán S.H.
Chief Justice of the Uppermost Court
Proud Philosopher of Talossa
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Talossan Since: 9-27-2010
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Post by Ián Tamorán S.H. on Oct 23, 2018 16:54:06 GMT -6
I urge everybody with musical talent to try to make accompanying music. Otherwise we can instead of a provincial anthem, have a provincial poem. Oh dear... as someone from Cézembre who has written quite a lot of music, I suppose this is going to be my job! Hmm... now let me see - what metre? what key? <goes off to piano stool to think> |
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Lüc da Schir
Senator for Benito
If Italy wins a Six Nations match I will join the Zouaves
Posts: 4,125
Talossan Since: 3-21-2012
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Post by Lüc da Schir on Oct 24, 2018 9:07:37 GMT -6
I urge everybody with musical talent to try to make accompanying music. Otherwise we can instead of a provincial anthem, have a provincial poem. Oh dear... as someone from Cézembre who has written quite a lot of music, I suppose this is going to be my job! Hmm... now let me see - what metre? what key? <goes off to piano stool to think> Out of curiosity, which ones did you pick (if you've done so already)? I tried coming up with a tune for the first two verses yesterday and I had used 4/4 and Eb major. |
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Post by Thor Deyaert on Oct 24, 2018 10:16:44 GMT -6
Oh dear... as someone from Cézembre who has written quite a lot of music, I suppose this is going to be my job! Hmm... now let me see - what metre? what key? <goes off to piano stool to think> Out of curiosity, which ones did you pick (if you've done so already)? I tried coming up with a tune for the first two verses yesterday and I had used 4/4 and Eb major. As a person with absolutely no clue about anything to do with music, this sound already promising! |
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Ián Tamorán S.H.
Chief Justice of the Uppermost Court
Proud Philosopher of Talossa
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Talossan Since: 9-27-2010
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Post by Ián Tamorán S.H. on Oct 24, 2018 11:41:15 GMT -6
Out of curiosity, which ones did you pick (if you've done so already)? I tried coming up with a tune for the first two verses yesterday and I had used 4/4 and Eb major. I've not reached a conclusion yet, but I can fit the metre to 6/8 rather better than 4/4 ... that's a comment about me, not about you - neither of us is wrong! The key, though - for that I shall have to wait till I have hammered out a melody, and adjusted it to fit human voices (You can all sing the A two octaves above middle-C, can't you?  ) ...um, you are talking about the verse at the head of this thread, aren't you? - this has only one "verse" (in the modern meaning of that word), but the Coronation poem/lyric does have verses. |
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Lüc da Schir
Senator for Benito
If Italy wins a Six Nations match I will join the Zouaves
Posts: 4,125
Talossan Since: 3-21-2012
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Post by Lüc da Schir on Oct 25, 2018 2:34:28 GMT -6
Out of curiosity, which ones did you pick (if you've done so already)? I tried coming up with a tune for the first two verses yesterday and I had used 4/4 and Eb major. I've not reached a conclusion yet, but I can fit the metre to 6/8 rather better than 4/4 ... that's a comment about me, not about you - neither of us is wrong! The key, though - for that I shall have to wait till I have hammered out a melody, and adjusted it to fit human voices (You can all sing the A two octaves above middle-C, can't you? ) Oh, I'm sure you'll do a far better job - especially because I'm not sure I'll have time to finish and arrange my version. I was just curious to see whether (or not) we had reached the same conclusions independently of each other.
No, I mistranslated what I was trying to say. I meant the first two lines, as a "verso" in Italian is a line  |
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