Re: Northern pricipality

[Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>]

Poster: Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>

While all this is lovely poetry, since it has moved onto the Merry Rose,
I'd just like to ask if there are any compelling reasons to create a
principality.  So far I've heard:

1) Another hat to vie for- nice, if you fight...

2) More courts- to be honest that doesn't grab me, but then I'm not a
court junkie.

3) Somehow this will bring about more recognition- um, if it's not
happening with the local baronies, I'm not sure how it will happen with
a principality.

4) More local unified spirit- I'll admit I haven't travelled much in
this northern region, but I can't really see how a new principality
would make folks who haven't travelled in this region before, gung ho to
do so...when I travel, I usually go south...

And, I'll admit, I have no experience with principalities.  

Miri




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> In danger of her life;
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> Dare claim to be her sire
> And neither does she live the role
> Of maiden, lover, wife --
> She lives instead in all our hearts,
> Bold action to inspire.
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> No rain is caused by men,
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> They've worked so hard to nurture.
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> One voice may seem a chorus--
> Like the crickets in the lea
> Who play so loud, their fellows'
> Hearts and minds to woo,
> But forget a herd of horses stands
> Beneath the tall oak tree,
> Quietly cropping, quietly watching,
> Quietly planning what they'll do.
> 
> The field we tread is full of men,
> Why forge a ring so hollow?
> The coronet that's sought shall honour
> All our land, in sooth,
> The flame that burns within our hearts
> Glows brightly with Fate's bellow --
> But through a dim glass darkly
> Some do choose to view the truth.
> 
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