what echoes up the shaft of history
Mercy
Brian Simoneau
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Brian Simoneau
Brian Simoneau Mercy —St. Mawes Castle, Cornwall The moat beneath us gone to garden, sea rose and Cornish heather, the old guardhouse peddling ice cream and trinkets, we crouch through a doorframe and notice wood and stone engraved to flatter the king whose coffers