15000 English Pounds it cost to
\nBuild this place
\nLocal stones used admirably
\nKing Edward at a pace
\nStrove to send it skywards
\nAnd out into the sea
\nMany towers and ramparts
\nWhere hearts and souls
\nWould be<\/p>\n
Conwy Bay stretched
\nAll about
\nCobbled pathways
\nTrue design
\nThis was quite the feat
\nExtraordinary every line
\nIt must have been majestic
\nHeart stopping I would say
\nStanding at the foot
\nOf the great walls
\nAnd across the Bay<\/p>\n
Imagining the arrows
\nThe cannon and the shot
\nRoaring hordes amassing
\nThere must have been a lot
\nOf Medieval strategists
\nAnd marksmen of the time
\nStaring down as raucous hordes
\nDid begin to climb<\/p>\n
Conwy Town also was walled
\nAnd their ghosts possibly
\nStill quietly frequent the battlements
\nWhere sandstone and limestone be.
\nIt took some four years to build
\nIn 1283
\nAnd in 1628 it was sold eventually
\nFor one hundred English Pounds
\nTo one Edward Conwy<\/p>\n
What an amazing bargain
\nFor so much he could see
\nthe enemy approaching
\nClambering masterfully
\nImagine being holed up there
\nAs foreign armies chase
\nPresumably the sea gulls
\nSquawking overhead their grace
\nAnd even now the spirits dance
\nSuch serpents of a time
\nFlying every which way.
\nIn a magical paradigm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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