Just the place for a landing
the pilots cried
As they dropped off the
crew without care
Supporting each man to the
planetary tilt
On a parachute up in the
air
Just the place for a landing,
we've said it twice
That alone should encourage
you few
Just the place for a landing
we've said it three times
What we tell you three times
is true
And when all the colonists
they had discharged
(Not without some weeping
and jeers)
They then flew away in a
relative way
And nobody saw them for
years
Tall were the Atevi and golden
of eye
With inventors just starting
to dream
And they were just leaving
agrarian ways
For technology powered by
steam
The two peoples shook hands
on a number of things
On each other began to depend
Till the colonists chanced
to discover one day
They 'd mistaken the word
they thought "friend"
They fought a brief war to
a stalemate and then
As a way to make everything
tidy
They channelled diplomacy
all through one man
And gave him the title of
Paidhi
The Paidhi was Bren who was
very adept
At keeping discussions on
track
But his world was disrupted
one night as he slept
When the ship and the pilots
came back
The Aiji omitted to mention
to Bren
The cause of his great consternation
But simply observed that
the Paidhi looked tired
And sent him away on vacation
They sought him with ribbons,
they filed their Intent
They pursued him with aircraft
and rope
They threatened his life
with assassins for rent
And they charmed him with
tea and hope |
So Bren went away and sat
on his tail
And perceived that his main
tribulations
All stemmed from his lack
of perception involved
In triangular forms of relations
First of all there was him
and his mother and Barb
Then his mother and Toby
and he
When Banichi and Jago got
into the mix
How very complex that would
be
The Aiji, the Paidhi, the
dowager too.
Ilisidi, Cenedi and Him
If Cenedi worked for an
undisclosed third
His hopes for the future
looked grim
At length they relented and
showed him their cause
As it shone in the evening
sky
Then they went for a ride,
mecheiti-back
While bombers above them
did fly
And the ship chose as well
to get into the act
And sent down Yolanda and
Jase
Tabini was quick the advantage
to seize
And promptly put Bren on
the case
In a rice field at midnight
with bodyguards pent
A parachute bobbed in the
breeze
And now Tatiseigi and Geigi
could claim
That even Paidhin came in
threes.
A felicitous number of years
had gone by
When the captains just chose
to confess
They had upset a neighbouring
alien race
Perhaps Bren could sort
out the mess?
So they boarded the ship
and Tabini just wrote
To appoint Bren "High Lord
of the Dark"
And with hopes very high
and Bren's heart in his boots
Away they've all gone...
to hunt Snark!
They sought him with ribbons,
they filed their intent
They pursued him with aircraft
and rope
They threatened his life
with assassins for rent
And they charmed us with
tea and hope
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