Award of the Elephants Heart

Awarded to Ysabeau of Cynnabar

By the Barony of Cynnabar on 2019-08-07

A good girl is Our Ysabeau, with strength of will,
A kind and lovely face, a soul more lovely still.
The enemies of Cynnabar this girl observe;
They want to overcome her, make her evil serve.
She does not heed the speech of those who lie and smirk
But steadfastly does not forsake her people’s work.
No, not for gems nor silver, not for gold,
No matter who may threaten, beg, or cold,
No thing nor person ever could this girl persuade
To fail to come to Cynnabar and give Us aid,
And this is why We call her forth and her address,
We, Cynnabar’s dread Baron and wise Baroness,
And We exhort her always in this way to live,
And Our Award, the Elephants Heart, to her We give.
Thus now to her great honor is conferred.
Let none who hear this countermand Our words.

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Adapted from “Séquence de sainte Eulalie” (Old French, c. 880).

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