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Assyrian New Year’s Toast
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Our calendars change, our watches are set.
This promising New Year runs before us
like a defeated host,
a lion wounded with arrows.
Pursue it in haste,
hot caution and joy -
with vengeance held in our hands!
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I'll drink to that! Although I don't do vengeance.
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how about lions..., just to remove that (a)?
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wounded by? lions yes, but then you should persue them, not it. Or is the army, singular?
Meh. I've bogged down - I'll come back.
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Our calendars change, our watches are set.
This promising New Year runs before us
like a defeated host,
a lion wounded with arrows.
Pursue it in haste,
hot caution and joy -
with vengeance held in our hands!
@both - Went back to fix that obvious problem and found out why it was there - getting the rhythm and number to all sync up is messy. "[H]ost" is archaic, but fixes the syllable count (and was the only one-syllable collective noun for "army" I could think of). And what could be more archaic than Assyrians?
@just mercedes - to misquote Napoleon, you may not do vengeance, but vengeance can do you.
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Hi dukealien! I like how unexpected the imagery is.
(01-03-2017, 11:30 PM)dukealien Wrote: Assyrian New Year’s Toast
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Our calendars change, our watches are set. -- I don't think you need 'are.' Or you could change 'set' to something else to keep the symmetry of three words, separated by a comma
This promising New Year runs before us -- I don't think you need promising -- I'd do "The New Year runs before us."
like a defeated host,
a lion wounded with arrows. -- love the idea that the New Year brings rich reward that can be attained through some effort
Pursue it in haste,
hot caution and joy - 'hot caution' is such a interesting combo -- I like it
with vengeance held in our hands!
