Lady Rhovaniell Song
Feb 3, 2016 23:25:15 GMT -8
Post by Mud on Feb 3, 2016 23:25:15 GMT -8
This is the poem that Lady Rhovaniell performed in the inn on January 31st. She performed the poem with a harp accompanying, and the air got colder when she entered.
"Sing the night breath to the tired trees my dear
The winds howl in the birches and the willows some
We are sundered from the times we know
And all is changed in the steps to come
All is reborn in your image, lady stone, and all is left bare
Every subtle fear and longing wish, granted in the branches now
There are no answers for the despair of life taken in love
We will walk the unknown and find ourselves like shadows before the prow
More haunts in these ruined walls than the pain of love lost and left
More works its way back into the tombs of the sky and searches and sinks
Your love stands sentinel over the sleeping earth
But now, innocence drops your furious guard and blinks
And like a talisman worn close to the heart
The chains will sound once again in the stone halls of torment
And your nightmare will become real again, and with it, your thunder, rain,
And lightning, my dear, what terror will your blind fury no longer dormant
Tread lightly my little children as the storm winds gather and cry
For they bring the struggle of an ancient past still unshaken
Watch for the timewalker, linked and bound, glamorous and gilt
For the wheel was never found and remade, and the wings still untaken
Until we taught the river to obey our serpentine dreams, and how the charmer plays
And the river will dance to another’s glee, bending us to his savage needs
Sing the night breath to the tired trees my dear
The winds howl in the birches and the willows bleeds
We are sundered from the times we knew
And all is changed in the steps to come
Will we stand here forever in this star worn night of tender hope
Or did she leave us here to learn, what has always been clear to some
There is no doorway westward wending now or ever more
And we have no songs to sings our passage from birth
There is no exit from this tired world we struggle against, my dear
And perhaps that was her song to us, the silent supplication of earth..."
"Sing the night breath to the tired trees my dear
The winds howl in the birches and the willows some
We are sundered from the times we know
And all is changed in the steps to come
All is reborn in your image, lady stone, and all is left bare
Every subtle fear and longing wish, granted in the branches now
There are no answers for the despair of life taken in love
We will walk the unknown and find ourselves like shadows before the prow
More haunts in these ruined walls than the pain of love lost and left
More works its way back into the tombs of the sky and searches and sinks
Your love stands sentinel over the sleeping earth
But now, innocence drops your furious guard and blinks
And like a talisman worn close to the heart
The chains will sound once again in the stone halls of torment
And your nightmare will become real again, and with it, your thunder, rain,
And lightning, my dear, what terror will your blind fury no longer dormant
Tread lightly my little children as the storm winds gather and cry
For they bring the struggle of an ancient past still unshaken
Watch for the timewalker, linked and bound, glamorous and gilt
For the wheel was never found and remade, and the wings still untaken
Until we taught the river to obey our serpentine dreams, and how the charmer plays
And the river will dance to another’s glee, bending us to his savage needs
Sing the night breath to the tired trees my dear
The winds howl in the birches and the willows bleeds
We are sundered from the times we knew
And all is changed in the steps to come
Will we stand here forever in this star worn night of tender hope
Or did she leave us here to learn, what has always been clear to some
There is no doorway westward wending now or ever more
And we have no songs to sings our passage from birth
There is no exit from this tired world we struggle against, my dear
And perhaps that was her song to us, the silent supplication of earth..."