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# Father And Son
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/father-and-son/
- Published: 2022-05-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Excalibur in his right hand King Arthur rides into the fray. The Saxons try to make a stand; the magic sword though, came to slay whomever stands in the king's path and one by one, they fall, each shield no match for...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Excalibur in his right hand  
King Arthur rides into the fray.  
The Saxons try to make a stand;  
the magic sword though, came to slay  
whomever stands in the king's path  
and one by one, they fall, each shield  
no match for the anointed's wrath  
their crimson blood soon stains the field.  
"Where is he, where!?" King Arthur screams;  
as Mordred, misbegotten son,  
laughs -- silver bells, cold mountain streams  
playing on rocks, till they have gone  
into the lake... the lake whose Lady  
gave him...crash! a sudden jolt...  
The son of that which God forbade,  
who leads this consummate revolt,  
knocks Arthur from his fabled horse  
a spear head sticking from his side,  
and history resumes its course.  
Where's Arthur now? We still abide...