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The Dwarven Marching Song


The Dwarven Marching Song

Flint the King

(227-228)

Preludes Volume Five

Mary Kirchoff and Douglas Niles

Song by the authors

Under the hills the heart of the axe

Arises from cinders the still core of the fire,

Heated and hammered the handle an afterthought,

For the hills are forging the first breath of war.

The soldier’s heart sires and brothers

The battlefield.

Come back in glory

Or on your shield.

Out of the mountains in the midst of the air

The axes are dreaming dreaming of rock,

The metal alive through the ages of ore,

Stone on metal metal on stone.

The soldier’s heart contains and dreams

The battlefield.

Come back in glory

Or on your shield.

Red of iron imagined from the vein,

Green of brass green of copper

Sparked in the fire the forge of the world,

Consuming in its dream as it dives into bone.

The soldier’s heart lies down, completes

The battlefield.

Come back in glory

Or on your shield.

Aghar version

Thunder pills the fart of the ox

Erasers for Cindy these still put out the fire,

Beated and bammered the hand thunk a thought,

The hills are breathing the fish breath afar.

Soldiers hit brothers, sorry

The battle feels.

Come back, O glowworm

And don’t forget your shirt.



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Last modified on October 18, 2009