REQ: rose & dagger

i hate to make a request as i consider myself an aspiring asciiartist but
my attempts here have resulted in miserable failure.  *sobs*  what i'm
looking fore here is a vertical dagger (preferably blade down but whatever
ya know) with a rose entwined around it.  20-25 lines would be perfect.

TIA!
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Nate Olsen wrote:
>i hate to make a request as i consider myself an aspiring asciiartist but
>my attempts here have resulted in miserable failure.  *sobs*  what i'm
>looking fore here is a vertical dagger (preferably blade down but whatever
>ya know) with a rose entwined around it.  20-25 lines would be perfect.

Hmm...25 lines exactly.  It's a bit dotty, but it's really *really* difficult to
make it less so.  It's based on a few other ASCIIs I've found, though I don't
have the attribution on any of them, I'm afraid.  :\
         ____
        (____)
        /____\
        |___.-~-.-~-.
        |__(  __|__  )_ 
        |/ \/\_/^\._)/ \
        (  (__{(@)}\_)  )
        |\_/ (/(_)\_))_/
  ______|_(  (__)_)_/ )
 /_________\_/  |  \_/
|/   .' |    '-~'~-'\|
    :  ;|    |
    :   '.   |
     '.  '.  |    ...
       '.  '.|  .' ..':
      ...'.  '.: .' .'
    .' _ .'.'.  '...'
    ;.'..'   '  :
    '~' |    |  ;
        |    |.'
        |    |
        |    | 
        |    |
         \  /
          \/

A few modifications...

         ____
        (____)
        /    \
        | /\ ;-~-.-~-.
        || _(  __|__  )_
        ||/ \/\_/^\._)/ \
        |(  (__{(@)}\_)  )
        ||\_/ (/(_)\_))_/
|\______| \(  (__)_)_/ )
 \__________\_/  |  \_/
     .' |\  /|'-~'~-'
    :  ;| \/ |
    :   '.   |
     '.  '.  |    ...
       '.  '.|  .' ..':
      ...'.  '.: .' .'
    .' _ .'.'.  '...'
    ;.'..'   '  :
    '~' |    |  ;
        |    |.'
        |    |
        |    | 
        |    |
         \  /
          \/

And horizontal...

                 /()
                / /                     __----__   _/\
         _/^ __/ /                   )/^        ^-^ _/
  /====/^ _/^==| |------------------/(            _/\.------,
{=| / /_/^/ / /|()                _/( \         _/  ./       >
  \============| |--------------/^ _(  ~-_    _/ \./\-------'
               \ \    ^\__^\../^_/^ )\    ~~~~    _\/
                \ \      ^\.__./^      ~---____--~ ~\
                 \()

-Karl
 A rose by any other name would likely be "deadly, thorn-bearing assault
vegitation."
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