{"id":145142,"date":"2026-05-13T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145142"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:31:46","slug":"william-dunbar-for-easter-done-is-a-battle-on-the-dragon-black-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145142","title":{"rendered":"William Dunbar for Easter\u2013\u2018Done is a battle on the dragon black\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Done is a battle on the dragon black,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our champion Christ confoundit has his force;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The yetis of hell are broken with a crack,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sign triumphal raisit is of the cross,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The devillis trymmillis with hiddous voce,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The saulis are borrowit and to the bliss can go,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christ with his bloud our ransonis dois indoce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dungan is the deidly dragon Lucifer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cruewall serpent with the mortal stang;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auld kene tiger, with his teith on char,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilk in a wait has lyen for us so lang,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking to grip us in his clawis strang;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The merciful Lord wald nocht that it were so,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made him for to failye of that fang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/50009\/done-is-a-battle\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f3a8;Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones &#8211; The Morning of Resurrection, 1886 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OmfglvN1SP\">pic.twitter.com\/OmfglvN1SP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andre Wisniewski (@AndreWisniewsk2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreWisniewsk2\/status\/1787119085546828186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Done is a battle on the dragon black, Our champion Christ confoundit has his force; The yetis of hell are broken with a crack, The sign triumphal raisit is of the cross, The devillis trymmillis with hiddous voce, The saulis<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145142\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-easter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145144,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145142\/revisions\/145144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}