I knew him as the Fair.

It is fair to say, to him I owed my life
for the life I knew before him died the day he came.
Though a killing he did not intend, indeed -- t’was but a consequence
of it, as it had come before --
of It, as It had come before.
I cannot tell Its name, though well engraved upon my mind
I dare not say. For there, Its body lies.
For there, Its...