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Battle Scene, by Samuel Johnson Woolf Written in the words of A.E. Housman, at the request of Ms. Screwhead, for Glaugust 2026.Encounters1. lads, in love with the grave.2. new young men/ The sergeant he must see3. Harnessed angels, hand on sword4. Leaden Lover, one for women to admire/ in his finery of fire5. master, right or wrong; make you dance as they desire/ With jail and gallows and hell-fire6. the dead call the dying/And finger at the doors.Areas1. The sergeantMonster: The sergeant. "'Young man, a soldier will you be, for thirteen pence a day?' He will lie. The desire of his heart? "Her strong enchantments failing. For things will all be over then, between the Queen and me."Treasure: the sweetheart he chose2. The Inn of NightContains: soldiers from the wars returning, bridles hang in stall. A charger remarks "We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled heir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the…

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