Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned -
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
Turn the key and bolt the door,
Into loud dawn.
A/N: If any of these verses look familiar, it's because they are: they're taken from different poems to make a 'cento' - or a poetical work wholly made from verses and passages from other authors, poets and writers. It's believed they originated in the 3rd or 4th century in Greece or Rome, and because of this, verses taken from the writings of Plato and Virgil can be used a lot in centos.
It's another poem dedicated to a main determinant character, and my first time writing a cento, but I think it works considering the theme and format of the form going on here haha!
The verses come from the following writers:
"Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned - " - 'Luck is not Chance' by Emily Dickinson
"For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law." - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' by T.S. Eliot
"Turn the key and bolt the door," - 'The Past' by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Into loud dawn." - 'The Circle' by Hazel Hall
Enjoy!