The Tower of Love

A great Lord once loved his Lady so much that they wed in the springtime in the merry month of May. They were happy always and were always together in love and harmony. 'What shall I do to please my true love?' the great Lord asked himself. 'I shall build a tower of love deep in the forest to consummate our eternal bond forever.' Said he. So, he started to build the greatest tower of all deep in the dark woods of the kingdom to be a token of their great love for all to see. To stand tall and proud above the tallest trees of the forest, and to reach up to the clouds in the heaven above. Standing tall and stately in the clear blue skies among the clouds and the birds of paradise. It took twenty-five years to complete and every great stone mason in the kingdom and every gifted carpenter in the land was employed to finish the great task of building the Lord and his Lady the most beautiful and spectacular royal tower of all. To stand for all time to come as a bastion of their true love and noble hearts of glory and grace divine. But on the very day that the great tower was completed the great and loving lady herself fell ill with a mysterious disease and died in her sleep shortly thereafter. The great Lord was left alone to mourn his loss weeping for the love of his lost lady forever. Until he too passed away one fateful winters day of a broken heart and was laid to rest with his precious love outside the tower gates in the frosty cold ground of the courtyard outside.  The great Tower of Love stood alone and forsaken for a hundred years as a solitary token of their great and final vows of true love and noble hearts.  And so, the young couples would make a pilgrimage each year to make their wedding vows at the top of the great Tower. They would pledge true love to each other forever and would make a true promise of eternal love. To be together like the great Lord and Lady of olden times until death them did part at last. And so the great tower of love stands deep in the woods until this very day, and it is still a bastion of eternal love forever more. Love conquers all in the end, even the embrace of death itself, and true love does indeed last forever. The Lord and the Lady now rests in peace and the love of their noble hearts endures forever and ever.  Amen.