Veturae Remembering - Maddy Prior

Roman was my childhood

Soft clothes and clean lines

Pillars and mosaics

Baths and fine wines

Law and order

But then they marched away

Never to return

Betrayed and deserted

At the mercy of the wars

Mercenaries of Vortigern

Fearless of laws

Crossed the seas

Hundreds upon hundreds

To dispossess me

To rob my native land

To rob me of my land

They think we have become an easy prey

Law and ordr

Then they marched away

Thy massacred our leaders

At a table set for peace

Hengest and his henchmen

Murderers at the feast

Alarm and terror blazed across the land

They hope to drive us out

Out of history

But a strong island people

Yield not so easily

Arthur pins them to the East

Drives them back into the sea

He strikes fear deep in their hearts

He is a savage man

Arthur our King