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Sword Woman

Alternate title:Ballad of Dark Agnes, TheAlternate title:Drums in My Ears
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SectionFinished and Professional

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Beyond the creak of rat-gnawed beams in squalid peasant huts:Above the groan of ox-wain wheels that ground the muddy ruts:I heard the beat of distant drums that call me night and dayTo roads where armored captains ride, in steel and roses panoplied,

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