Solomon Kane on Justice

Drake faced them all like a lion at bay,

 with his lion head upflung:

 “Dare ye my word of law defy,

  to say that this traitor shall not die?”

  And his captains dared not meet his eye

  but each man held his tongue.

  Solomon Kane stood forth alone,

  grim man of a somber race:

  “Worthy of death he well may be,

  but the court ye held was a mockery,


Ye hid your spite in a travesty

  where Justice hid her face.

  More of the man had ye been,

  on deck your sword to cleanly draw

  in forthright fury from its sheath,

  and openly cleave him to the teeth –

  Rather than slink and hide beneath

  a hollow word of Law.”