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Pellinore and the Beast

from Tales To Be Told by The Mechanisms

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In Camlann town where I was born

There was a beast of iron

Three hundred years remained uncaught

But not for want of trying



Deep in the night it clanked and roared

It tore our town asunder

Of metal sheets, of bricks and stone

All building blocks did plunder



A price, a price, upon its head

A living wage forever

For any knight to strike it dead

Upon this grand endeavour



Go ready me my wheels of speed

My bandoliers and rifle

That I may ride to seek my prize

For all that’s just and rightful



For two score years I tracked it down

I would not be outwitted

Though many times my spirit broke

My quest could not be quitted



It was the merry month of May

I found its wondrous dwelling

A bower of brick and burnished steel

Formed from our own town’s felling



The beast of iron, in times gone by

Created all things useful

It could not cease when the stores ran dry

Its beauty yet was truthful



And though I tried with all my might

I’d not the heart to kill it

For few can take a dying world

And still with beauty fill it.

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from Tales To Be Told, released November 28, 2013

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The Mechanisms: a band of immortal space pirates roaming the universe in the starship Aurora. Some say they’re from a steampunk future, others claim they’re from a cyberpunk past, a few even whisper that they may be from a dieselpunk alternate now. They are all correct. ... more

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