Sleep, my darling, Davy boy
Sleep, my precious, eager toy
Spend one night of raptured joy
And give yourself to me
Morn comes fast, you must away
On your ship so proud and gay
Must you go, oh can't you stay,
Stay and comfort me
Ride the billow! Reap the wave!
Waste the souls that you can't enslave!
Drive the drowned men, stout and brave
That fell 'fore raging sea!
Call the monster from the deep!
Slice the roaring breaker steep!
Hear the shore-bound widows weep
That love no more shall see!
Cruise the dark and damning waste!
Give the drowned their deathly taste!
Grasp them, hold them, then make haste
And bring their souls to me!
But you
Sha
Squire at the Crossroads by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
Squire at the Crossroads
The crossroads was a lonely place
Where I first met the Squire.
His suit was clean and neatly cut,
His eyes burned with dark fire.
He offered me his grasping claw,
He struck a graceful stance;
And so it was I bowed to him
And joined him for a dance.
O toss your head with the crumpled horn,
And stir the trodden dust!
The music plays through night and morn
And dance, o dance we must.
I danced with Squire Beelzebub—
We danced the night away,
Then came the dawn, then came the sun,
Then came the spreading day.
The Squire stretched out his claw to show
The roads that I might take,
But fog was o'er the roads all three
And I began to quake.
That's my last Orbit lying in the bin,
Wrapped in a hanky. It's been lying in
My room since March: I got it from
A vending-machine in Cologne, for a small sum
Of coins. Disgusting, really; but I had
An interview, and thought my breath smelled bad.
Disgusting by design. The minty taste
Now deep and passionate in the bag of waste
Is chemical (but then, no-one puts by
Their tastes in times of need quite as do I).
But not the first are you to ask me why
If such is my abhorrence, I succumb
And ev'ry now and then buy chewing-gum.
The guidelines chanced to say: “Thy honoured breath
“Should fragrant be, or else the venture risketh
“
Samstag Abend
Du hast nix zu tun
Willst nicht weggehn
Noch zu früh zum Ruh'n
Draußen nieselt's
Und im Fernsehen läuft nur Müll
Deine Freunde
Sind im Urlaub und
Captain Jack ist
Dir zu ungesund
Du musst pieseln
Und du hasst dieses Gefühl
Drum
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
(Katze an)
(Komm, sie hat's doch verdient)
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Komm, sie hat's doch (verdient, verdient, verdient) verdient
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Zünd! Die Kat
Characters
Yaza
Mirya, a Yazan peasant woman
Martya, her sister
Yusuf, Martya's son
Malya, Mirya's daughter
Yasha, Mirya's son
Yeshu, Malya's newborn son
Zayan
General Zapolon, leader of the army of Zayan
Sergeant Zagon
Private Zon
Private Zan
Prologue
The border between Yaza and Zayan. Enter the army of Zayan, marching.
Gen. Zapolon
Company, HALT!
Sgt. Zagon, Pvt. Zon, Pvt. Zan
HOOAH! (They halt)
Gen. Zapolon
Well, men, this is it. We've reached the enemy land.
Sgt. Zagon
Be alert. There may be scouts.
Pvt. Zon
Let 'em come. I can't wait to get my hands on one of those Yazan pigs!
Gen. Zapolon
That'
There's A Sunday Coming Soon Apocrypha by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
There's A Sunday Coming Soon Apocrypha
There's an endless line of people
Fleeing from a hell of sand
Forty years of thirst and hunger
Till they reached the Promised Land
And the fathers and the mothers
Fall down in the heat of noon
This is Friday, a day for dying
But there's a Sunday coming soon
And the rivers run uncaring
As the harps hang on the trees
And the singers weep in silence
As they feel the foreign breeze
For the gallows stands and threatens
As the queen begs for a boon
This is Friday, a day for dying
But there's a Sunday coming soon
Now the sky is bloody crimson
And the flames are licking tall
As the Temple burns and crumbles
And becomes a Wailing Wall
And the treasu
Just Flipping Through my iPod by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
Just Flipping Through my iPod
Teenagers, Fleurs du Mal,
Tarkus, You Can Call Me Al,
Ahti, Mack the Knife,
Court of Crimson King
Ride of Valkyries, Caroline,
Maid of Orleans, I Feel Fine,
St. Jimmy, Barcarolle,
D'you Hear the People Sing
Sussex Carol, Shenandoah,
Rues de Londres, Sogno,
Glory Days, The Elements,
Wake Me When September Ends
Sandlerkönig Eberhard,
Brick in Wall 2nd Part,
Perfect 10, Ghost of Tom Joad,
Great Song of Indifference!
Just flipping through my iPod
All these songs terrific
Artists so prolific
Just flipping through my iPod
We got songs galore
Just can't wait for more
Radetzky March, Schreechenrauf,
Sailor's Tale, Ich brauch Stoff,
Rite of S
EQD WTG #020: The Deliverance of the Exiles by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #020: The Deliverance of the Exiles
Tartarus. A dark and forsaken vale, in the deepest, driest corner of the Equestrian Badlands. It is encircled by gaunt and razoring mountains, and within it dwell shadows, bound and weakened, that glower at the dim wasteland around them and dream twisted, raging nightmares. Every night, a cloud of tortures arises from the deeps and wisps itself to perdition in the cloudy heights, over the heads of the great black beast that stands, grim in its solitude before the heavy, forbidding gates.
There are those creatures that strain and rattle the heavy fetters that confine them within their spaces, and there are those who merely sit and seek in the
EQD WTG #019 Passing the Torch by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #019 Passing the Torch
My name is Silver Script. I am a pegasus, I work at a small grocery store and I live in the City of Las Pegasus. I am a coltfriend, a valued worker and a faithful subject of their Highnesses, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. And I am the foundation stone of my town's future.
Las Pegasus has always been a vibrant and lively place – maybe too lively. Ponies here are full of energy, ready to start a new project and win new glory for themselves. And sometimes, those projects are on the wrong side of the law of Equestria.
Before this year's Equestria Games in the Crystal Empire, there was a pause longer than the usual Equestriad of fou
EQD WTG #018: Dirty New World by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #018: Dirty New World
The ground is crumbly and black, with a few stalks of brittle, grey grass clinging on, spanning the gap between the stinking oily river and the potholed road that leads to a wooden door, set into the sooty brick wall. The air here is thick and carries a smell of metal and acid, with a hint of many burnt things.
The sky could be blue, or it could be silvery-black, or even bloody, gorey red – the filthy clouds and boiling fog make it hard to tell, and in any case, the noise behind the great wall never stops, never sleeps. And what a noise it is – a pounding, a screaming, a hissing, the groans of ogres and the snoring of a dying dra
Sleep, my darling, Davy boy
Sleep, my precious, eager toy
Spend one night of raptured joy
And give yourself to me
Morn comes fast, you must away
On your ship so proud and gay
Must you go, oh can't you stay,
Stay and comfort me
Ride the billow! Reap the wave!
Waste the souls that you can't enslave!
Drive the drowned men, stout and brave
That fell 'fore raging sea!
Call the monster from the deep!
Slice the roaring breaker steep!
Hear the shore-bound widows weep
That love no more shall see!
Cruise the dark and damning waste!
Give the drowned their deathly taste!
Grasp them, hold them, then make haste
And bring their souls to me!
But you
Sha
Squire at the Crossroads by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
Squire at the Crossroads
The crossroads was a lonely place
Where I first met the Squire.
His suit was clean and neatly cut,
His eyes burned with dark fire.
He offered me his grasping claw,
He struck a graceful stance;
And so it was I bowed to him
And joined him for a dance.
O toss your head with the crumpled horn,
And stir the trodden dust!
The music plays through night and morn
And dance, o dance we must.
I danced with Squire Beelzebub—
We danced the night away,
Then came the dawn, then came the sun,
Then came the spreading day.
The Squire stretched out his claw to show
The roads that I might take,
But fog was o'er the roads all three
And I began to quake.
That's my last Orbit lying in the bin,
Wrapped in a hanky. It's been lying in
My room since March: I got it from
A vending-machine in Cologne, for a small sum
Of coins. Disgusting, really; but I had
An interview, and thought my breath smelled bad.
Disgusting by design. The minty taste
Now deep and passionate in the bag of waste
Is chemical (but then, no-one puts by
Their tastes in times of need quite as do I).
But not the first are you to ask me why
If such is my abhorrence, I succumb
And ev'ry now and then buy chewing-gum.
The guidelines chanced to say: “Thy honoured breath
“Should fragrant be, or else the venture risketh
“
Samstag Abend
Du hast nix zu tun
Willst nicht weggehn
Noch zu früh zum Ruh'n
Draußen nieselt's
Und im Fernsehen läuft nur Müll
Deine Freunde
Sind im Urlaub und
Captain Jack ist
Dir zu ungesund
Du musst pieseln
Und du hasst dieses Gefühl
Drum
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
Zünd! die Katze an
Zünd!
die Katze an
(Katze an)
(Komm, sie hat's doch verdient)
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Komm, sie hat's doch (verdient, verdient, verdient) verdient
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Au! Miau!
Zünd! Die Kat
Characters
Yaza
Mirya, a Yazan peasant woman
Martya, her sister
Yusuf, Martya's son
Malya, Mirya's daughter
Yasha, Mirya's son
Yeshu, Malya's newborn son
Zayan
General Zapolon, leader of the army of Zayan
Sergeant Zagon
Private Zon
Private Zan
Prologue
The border between Yaza and Zayan. Enter the army of Zayan, marching.
Gen. Zapolon
Company, HALT!
Sgt. Zagon, Pvt. Zon, Pvt. Zan
HOOAH! (They halt)
Gen. Zapolon
Well, men, this is it. We've reached the enemy land.
Sgt. Zagon
Be alert. There may be scouts.
Pvt. Zon
Let 'em come. I can't wait to get my hands on one of those Yazan pigs!
Gen. Zapolon
That'
There's A Sunday Coming Soon Apocrypha by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
There's A Sunday Coming Soon Apocrypha
There's an endless line of people
Fleeing from a hell of sand
Forty years of thirst and hunger
Till they reached the Promised Land
And the fathers and the mothers
Fall down in the heat of noon
This is Friday, a day for dying
But there's a Sunday coming soon
And the rivers run uncaring
As the harps hang on the trees
And the singers weep in silence
As they feel the foreign breeze
For the gallows stands and threatens
As the queen begs for a boon
This is Friday, a day for dying
But there's a Sunday coming soon
Now the sky is bloody crimson
And the flames are licking tall
As the Temple burns and crumbles
And becomes a Wailing Wall
And the treasu
Just Flipping Through my iPod by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
Just Flipping Through my iPod
Teenagers, Fleurs du Mal,
Tarkus, You Can Call Me Al,
Ahti, Mack the Knife,
Court of Crimson King
Ride of Valkyries, Caroline,
Maid of Orleans, I Feel Fine,
St. Jimmy, Barcarolle,
D'you Hear the People Sing
Sussex Carol, Shenandoah,
Rues de Londres, Sogno,
Glory Days, The Elements,
Wake Me When September Ends
Sandlerkönig Eberhard,
Brick in Wall 2nd Part,
Perfect 10, Ghost of Tom Joad,
Great Song of Indifference!
Just flipping through my iPod
All these songs terrific
Artists so prolific
Just flipping through my iPod
We got songs galore
Just can't wait for more
Radetzky March, Schreechenrauf,
Sailor's Tale, Ich brauch Stoff,
Rite of S
EQD WTG #020: The Deliverance of the Exiles by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #020: The Deliverance of the Exiles
Tartarus. A dark and forsaken vale, in the deepest, driest corner of the Equestrian Badlands. It is encircled by gaunt and razoring mountains, and within it dwell shadows, bound and weakened, that glower at the dim wasteland around them and dream twisted, raging nightmares. Every night, a cloud of tortures arises from the deeps and wisps itself to perdition in the cloudy heights, over the heads of the great black beast that stands, grim in its solitude before the heavy, forbidding gates.
There are those creatures that strain and rattle the heavy fetters that confine them within their spaces, and there are those who merely sit and seek in the
EQD WTG #019 Passing the Torch by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #019 Passing the Torch
My name is Silver Script. I am a pegasus, I work at a small grocery store and I live in the City of Las Pegasus. I am a coltfriend, a valued worker and a faithful subject of their Highnesses, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. And I am the foundation stone of my town's future.
Las Pegasus has always been a vibrant and lively place – maybe too lively. Ponies here are full of energy, ready to start a new project and win new glory for themselves. And sometimes, those projects are on the wrong side of the law of Equestria.
Before this year's Equestria Games in the Crystal Empire, there was a pause longer than the usual Equestriad of fou
EQD WTG #018: Dirty New World by 4ScarfAce4, literature
Literature
EQD WTG #018: Dirty New World
The ground is crumbly and black, with a few stalks of brittle, grey grass clinging on, spanning the gap between the stinking oily river and the potholed road that leads to a wooden door, set into the sooty brick wall. The air here is thick and carries a smell of metal and acid, with a hint of many burnt things.
The sky could be blue, or it could be silvery-black, or even bloody, gorey red – the filthy clouds and boiling fog make it hard to tell, and in any case, the noise behind the great wall never stops, never sleeps. And what a noise it is – a pounding, a screaming, a hissing, the groans of ogres and the snoring of a dying dra
I was born some time ago and am not sure when I will die. In between, I hope to be able to give the world something that will make it a nicer place. Profile picture by the up-and-coming Purple-Smiles, and used with her permission.
Favourite Visual Artist
Well...I suppose I like Picasso and Kandinsky.
Favourite Movies
Amelie springs to mind.
Favourite TV Shows
Doctor Who, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Pink Floyd.
Favourite Books
The Skulduggery Pleasant Series, Lord of the Rings, Maximum Ride
Favourite Writers
William Shakespeare, Alexander McCall Smith...
Favourite Games
I'm not much of a gamester, but can be convinced to join the odd board game.
Favourite Gaming Platform
Not really my thing.
Tools of the Trade
Computer keyboard or, if I'm feeling old-fashioned, a pencil and a bit of paper.
Other Interests
Christianity, how to save the world from itself, languages.
We recently introduced mia cara's four-year-old son to Friendship is Magic, and as it turns out, he really loves it. In fact, he loves it so much, he's been identifying people he knows with FiM characters.
He himself is Rainbow Dash, which fits nicely. He's brave, lively and energetic, sometimes too much so for his own good.
Mia cara is Princess Luna. Also very fitting--calm, intelligent, and with a Tantabus inside her that I wish I could teach her to cope with. And she is a MAJOR Luna fan.
Mia cara's best friend, whom I've never met (she lives on the other side of the country) is Fluttershy. She, apparently, is quite shy in real life.
An
Hi there everyone ... sorry I haven't been around lately.
There is a good reason, though. Test season. And this semester, I've actually had papers and essays to write, rather than just written tests to cram for. I still have three essays and a portfolio outstanding, but after that, I hope to get back in the swing of dingoids.
And with GalaCon coming up, I really need to get up to speed on FiM episodes ... yep, test season cuts into that, too. As does work.
Actually, I was intending to watch a couple last night, but the first one I went for was Slice of Life (the #100 episode) and ...
OhMyCadanceThisEpisodeWasSoAwesomeICan'tBelieveTheCreat
Finally, for once ... I feel that the United States has lived up to its ideals.
A big pat on the back to the Supreme Court for recognizing that love is love, and that the institution of marriage needs to be extended to be just for everyone.
I'm kind of out of words, and time, right now, so I'll just close this entry and remind you all ...
We shall overcome!