The Proper Way of the Long S

The faithful man picks up his pen

And prepares þͤ letter to his trusted men

     But he knows naught of þͤ sacred ſ

         "The loathſome letter," the mortals says.

  In his haste, he beseech to þͤ begetter

       Wasting his one chance to turn his life for the better

                                                        For a single, petty prayer

                     I swear to God he is wasting his one chance

        of asking for great luck to fulfil his writing stance

   His delusional trance

 

                    "Delusional trance," I tell you!

       But our complaints flew like a canoe

             As the begetter descends to our man

        how to write the long s, if he can

 

Now, he will tell us how to actually use the long s. So please listen!

       There are only three rules to follow

           Please use them with great wallow—

                The long s shan't rest lone at the end of our wisp

                Or else it will end with a long hiſs

                Like þͭ of a serpent

         Next—

                For our letter f's sake, it shan't be an usurpant

                Or else it riſk transforming into mountainſ of confuſion

                Akin to þͭ of a madman's deluſion

         Finally—

                Only use the ſ to replace one s from the double s sequence

                And to replace our lovely "shall" frequence

                The lonesome s in the middle we leave alone

                Lest disowning our little s letter,

                             its position dethrone and its status bemoan

 

       When using the long s as a useleſs decoration

               take good care as to not break any word's foundation

   Lest the word being miſinterpreted

                 and the angry ears of grains it harvested

Listen to how the words sounds like

    And use the ſ with precise strike

 

"My rules aren't clear

         so humans should interpret it with care!"

  And so, the begetter disappears

     with the man ready for his letter's premieres

   He writes down to his men

           A letter he ties to his wren

What letter did he send, we shall wait two weeks later.