“Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes”

—  Anne McCaffrey, book Dragonsong

Source: Dragonsong

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American-Irish novelist 1926–2011

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