~ By Courtesy of Others ~
No Surrender
"Surrender?" Me? "Never!" I say.
I await the shield-maidens' call
At the abyss of Grim's lone eye.
My final stand might last all day;
My patience is strong as a wall.
No rope shall ever hang me high
For ignominious display.
My resistant soul cannot fall;
I have come to do or to die.
There's no "surrender"; Come what may!
© Justin Douglas Blackford
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Image: "Gizur and the Huns", Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831–1892), Norwegian painter