[SOC] Introduction

[Quikhooligan via SOC]

On 8/24/2014 10:40 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

> And the original which for some reason no one ever repeats.
> 
> 
> In days of old when Knights were bold
> and honour was the fashion
> there was a maid a fine young maid
> whose heart was full of passion.
> She fell in love with a man of wealth
> a married man at that.
> The wife he had was ill of health,
> the son he had a brat.
> 
> Now what’s the use of honour?
> when infidel is the game
> and what is this persona
> redundant of all shame.
> The faith he had when just a lad,
> now no more than a stranger.
> A heart of gold, a love so sad
> that now he lives for danger.
> 
> Then one grey and stormy day
> he went to war for price to pay
> for all the trouble and the strife
> that he had caused his ill health wife.
> To make amends before it’s too late
> and turn around the hand of fate,
> with destiny he had a date.
> 
> The maid at home while man at war,
> of her daily life she did now bore,
> so she played away every day
> and with the brat at that,
> until the time when for his crime
> the wealthy man now in his prime
> came home for tit for tat.
> 
> He found them lying upon his bed,
> the maid and the brat, passions fed,
> in the corner lay stone dead
> the ill health wife who had not been fed.
> His anger raged, he fired the gun,
> A sudden blast his duty done,
> He’d killed himself as day begun
> 
> 
> 73
> de N1EA


SOC = Stanzas Of Confusion