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abbess, cephalophore, death, head, headless, life, martyr, nun, pooem, saint, saxon, st osgth, st osgyth, st osyth
Saint Osgyth
She would carry her head
Back to holy ground
After they had struck it
From her neck
So rudely.
Scorned men are fools
That they chase
Full of pettiness
That they would
Take an abbess
And remove her head
Just for spite.
You should have seen their faces,
When she picked her severed head
From the ground, gingerly,
Placed it upon her bloody neck
And made a silly face
That made these monstrous fools
Faint or stumble down,
“The devil!” They cried
On this holy woman
They had just killed
Dragged from the abbey
Still in her wimple
And murdered
Cold, in the name of
A spurned husband.
“The only devils I see are men”
The dead woman cried,
As she strode away,
Crossing herself
For protection
Although this act,
With a severed head
In hands, Bloody,
Seemed to bother them.
She would find her way back,
To the abbey, Eventually.
She had a few more
Misbegotten fools
To frighten first.
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