/// The Swede, Magnus Stenbock, here is seated
on his horse facing foes he defeated.
The Danes at Helsingborg,
which now smells like a morgue
from horse corpses left when they retreated.
/// Magnus fans his hat. This act dispels
just a bit of the foul wind-borne smells.
The sickening stench is
from bodies in trenches,
and those purposely thrown into wells.
/// The Swede, Magnus Stenbock, here is seated
on his horse facing foes he defeated.
The Danes at Helsingborg,
which now smells like a morgue
from horse corpses left when they retreated.
/// Magnus fans his hat. This act dispels
just a bit of the foul wind-borne smells.
The sickening stench is
from bodies in trenches,
and those purposely thrown into wells.