![]() Among them the King, wily and frozen in his own divinity, and conscious that Raleigh had managed to make his death ""a kind of murder"" and Coke, the attorney general, who squirms between his dream of law common and divine the new Mayor of London worrying about his celebration which falls on the execution day - along with other officials, priests, commoners and the elderly executioner and his son. And other contemporaries, in the ""shifting winds and tricky tides"" of King James' time, are caught and heard during Raleigh's dwindling hours - some reaching the appropriate pitch of involvement. But then, black swans are rare."" Thus Sir Francis Bacon, a flawed, thin voice, comments on Sir Walter Raleigh, the poet, courtier, adventurer and soldier, when he was taken to Westminster Hall and execution. ![]() I go to Westminster to see the last of our swans. ![]()
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