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Walküre:
GLORIOUS SMITHS WERE PROUD



--- Zitat ---Winding through the fen,
Passing lair and den,
Slumber there some fells:
Lonely holly-dells.

Harpers used to find
Great delight of mind
By recounting fain
Elder wright-domain.

Glorious smiths were proud
To labour all around;
Beryls came to be,
East beyond the sea.

Roads united Elf
To mighty Dwarrowdelf,
For every tale to laud,
From home to far abroad.

The entrance to the mine
Shall open via sign:
"Await the moonlit ray
To grave a door in clay."
--- Ende Zitat ---

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A GATE TO GLOOM



--- Zitat ---It darkened so uncouth.
From yeoman's eager mouth
Was uttered cheerless ode
To ruined mount-abode.

They delved alone in rock;
They later fled amok.
A fire burst and roared;
Too deep the Dwarf had bored.

Shut the ancient way,
Routes we fare astray
Without a ruling one
To comfort Durin's son.

Putrid ponds belie
Horrendous cavern-cry;
Rotting waters mask
The void inside the dusk.

Holly spread around,
Over failing ground,
While disgraces loom
By the gate to doom.
--- Ende Zitat ---

Walküre:
WHO MAY TRAVERSE THE DARK?



--- Zitat ---Who may traverse the Dark?
Who may revive the bark
Of weeping sallow trees
That shiver during breeze?

Some creature there resides
Beneath the dirty tides,
Down a sombre pool
Luring but the fool.

A crawling sea of snakes,
As perilous as drakes;
Its eyes lurk and crave
The intruder wading wave.

Crossing Moria's wall
Unto dreary hall
Shall perhaps awaken
Nightmares, long forsaken.

One ought not to travel
Paths divining evil;
One had better stay
Out of sullen way.
--- Ende Zitat ---

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'TIS NOT SERFDOM



--- Zitat ---'Tis not thy serfdom or despair.
'Tis not the bondage of the Fair.
'Tis not a golden gaol herein.
'Tis not a contest ye may win.

Thou might'st not withstand the quest.
Thou dost mischief to sow unrest.
Thou needest now and true atone.
Thou shalt repent and fight alone.

We are to Shore and Isle conceal.
We seek a punishment to deal.
We thus decree the Regent's word.
We but a King revere as lord.

They fell while guarding Ship and Haven.
They pearls and ports with blood had graven.
They ever sang and danced of old.
They greatly yearned the mortal world.

I warn you all by malediction.
I send my speech and not inscription.
I rule the greyness of demise.
I may assume the phantom-guise.
--- Ende Zitat ---

Walküre:
I THUS FORGAVE



--- Zitat ---I thus the Smith forgave,
If Valar willed to save
The continent in plight
From dull perpetual night.

My vessels will depart
Whence mourned of grief the heart,
Yet solemnly I swear
To never join the flare.

No foot we are to set
Upon the hither-shore;
No mariner we let
That ghoulish fief explore.

Remembrance burneth still
Of tragedy occurred;
It then descended chill,
By avarice bestirred.
--- Ende Zitat ---

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GIVE ME RAIN! GIVE ME TEAR!



--- Zitat ---Give me rain! Give me tear!
Wash away deceitful smear!
Send thy raging howling storm
Agin the breaker of the norm!

Unsullied ruler, I beseech:
Whither Eagles farthest reach,
Order fowls my kin to avail,
Carrying messengers by gale.

Grant us pardon, beg I thee,
O sheerest lord beyond the sea;
I dread the rumbling of thunder.
Mirthless clouds me ever render.

Devout I shall in faith remain,
For pity nought hath done in vain,
And even destinies will bend
To fateful Mariner's amend.
--- Ende Zitat ---

Walküre:
MY PEREGRINE OLD FRIEND



--- Zitat ---My peregrine old friend,
I met thee long ago.
Thy visits well portend
To ameliorate the woe.

The pain I come to suffer
Into wearied heart,
When season groweth stiffer
At eerie sundown-start.

Of deeds I oft bethink:
Of voyages afar;
The much impervious brink
We trod beneath the Star.

We passed the cave for good,
Inhabited by Orc.
We battled evil brood
Through brave united work.

My lauded fearless mage,
I shall await thy coming,
And wherefore will the sage
Appear in radiant morning.
--- Ende Zitat ---

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GRACIOUS HARPER IN THE NIGHT



--- Zitat ---Gracious Harper in the night,
But a Wraith commanding fright
Hath appeared out of gloom
In the like of speaking doom.

What shall verily occur?
Is the world but scare and blur?
I think not, beaming sire,
Lest of lie resound the lyre.

Thy melody awoke
My feral mongrel-folk.
The Late covet joy
Which never climes alloy.

Lead us thither, thee we pray!
Take the sourness away!
We swear to hinder darkling being,
Who much on perfidy is keen.
--- Ende Zitat ---

Walküre:
IN SACRED DEITY



--- Zitat ---In sacred deity, I vow to trust;
Be I to fade, reduced to dust.
Elder Crown of western plain,
To thee no rival might be bane.

I would ye were the Prince to avail,
Your mourning servant under flail,
By force of thundering decree
And so ferocious roar of Sea.

Yonder liest thou, sacrosanct and bright!
Ever fowls repose, into virgin light!
Redeem the fault upon the marred;
Be trumpets tale of Elven-bard.

Move the currents! Shake the abyss!
Rout thine Enemy amiss!
Whirl the wave and crack profound
Sinful continents around!

Which disgrace will hence destroy
Evil's foul demonic ploy?
Which intrigue thou art to cease
Amid the sadly swathing pleas?
--- Ende Zitat ---

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MAN I LOVE AND CHERISH



--- Zitat ---Man I love and cherish,
Wishing fain to stay
Out of ill or blemish
In the vile affray.

Father, give him time.
He shall travel north.
Valour shall be rhyme
Glorifying his worth.
--- Ende Zitat ---

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