Editing The Emperor's Day Martyr (section)

===III. The Gifts===

When the children truly saw him

Their faces all turned bright

And quickly was forgotten,

The terrors of the night.


A trusty wooden lasgun,

To a young Storm Trooper boy

Who thought of all the Xenos

He would slay with his new toy.


And to a future Commissar

He gave a golden sash,

For he would grow to lead his men

With cunning, dare, and dash.


And to a little sister,

He gave a stuffed silk skull.

For to His honor would be pledged

All the traitors she would cull.


Then there among their number

Was one unlike the rest.

She minded all the children,

like a hen within a nest.