The Red Keep

I got sick of writing book reports for history, so....

Reclaiming the Red Keep
ETL

Spears clashed, shields rang,
Men died, swords sang
As they swung through the air that day.
And when reinforcement finally came,
It was too late.

The girl they found was unhurt but scared;
The family she loved had not been spared.
A baron took her to raise as his own
The day that the Red Keep was taken.

The years went by, the seasons passed,
The girl was nearly grown when, at last,
There arose a man yet still a boy
To save her honor and retake her home.

He laid his plans and rebuilt its wall,
Then fought against the evil *Sauval.
The dawn was bright, the hour was light
When the girl went forth to help him.

Together they fought, together they slew;
The grass was wet with blood, not dew.
They took the castle, but there still remained
A fight to be fought, a fight betwixt two.
A boy and a man.

The warriors fought that precarious fight
With all of their strength and all of their might.
They battled, thrusted, and parried too,
‘Til finally the youth was victorious.

The young but powerful duke of the land
Decided to take the matters in hand.
He proclaimed that the maiden could not own the keep,
But a husband could hold it for her.

Many men stepped up to fill that post,
But one in particular whom she loved most.
So, the lass and the lad were married
That day, and the castle, through love, was regained.

* The Sauval were a greedy and murderous fiefdom that attacked and took the Red Keep in the first place.