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Sparkles an crackles now, the good fire side
Speaketh an keepeth, the brenton to the bryne
Creepeth an leapeth, the flames this eventtide
Painteth an changeth on walls, falls the night
Keepth and waxeth, moon in winter white
Blesseth and wexeth, in silver starry light
Frost hath setteth, blue bendeth binds
Longer than the songer, roads windeth far behind
firesider an fire, fellowhood now bind
fire an scryer, in holy orange now shine
moon song an star in choir now rise
dreamy sleep in song low, companions now find
O'er the hearth, the Horsehoe red with glow
Frost hath set bitten o'er all who are throned
Cowled in thy penance, gated in golden gloam
Mighty is the beetle's pince, frozen in night's HOLD...
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2. |
The spangled flame
04:37
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Thy cloaken night
In milk white wood
In thorn winds bite
Thy frock an hood
Thy song an dream
in winter's scowl
Hear field mice scream
Eaten by the owl
In badger's hole
neath frozen springs
IN sleep of mole
neath trap of dreams
houses without true stars
thou hast true home
in weasel's gnarl
in badger's hole
the fallow grave: "It is not thy time"
In badger's hole
neath frozen springs
In sleep of mole
neath trap of dreams
The fallow grave: "It is not thy time"
In badger's hole
neath frozen springs
In sleep of mole
neath trap of dreams
High above in blaze
a star in bryne
Blessed in a gaze
To learn now its shine
In its sleep the ice said to thee:
"Break fountain's curse and thy fire's freeze"
Then sang The spangled flame :
"Ive come to live for but a night
I have come to eat all I meet
I have come to dnace and dine
I am come to burn an leap"
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3. |
Albion slept
03:16
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Albion slept as I dreamed
Once adorned with keep an spire
Albion slept as I dreamed
And she lies in white of sepulcher an her eyes closed with winter
Low she speaks
of lovers an lords she's known
through pillow an sheet
of secret name written on wintering sword
Low, flames speak
through open fire an stone
Of gowan an gown, aglow
See now, her face in the fire
See now her sceptre of olde
See how her hair, a'briar
See how burns her throne
See the bloody rivers of tribes
See the dragon, in meteor fall
See the liars an scribes
See them lifting her dress
See stones, weeping, confess
See now falme, bare and undressed
Albion slept as i dreamed
Once adorned in keep an spire
Albion slept as I dreamed
An she will return an her eyes will be red with FIRE
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4. |
Gone is the green
05:19
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Empty the cold naked throne
Bare the crown of thy lord
Bald the grave of headless stone
Full the stag in tangle of horns
Tears the wind against the oak
And gone is parting of leaves
Blue is the cold now be becloaked
And gone, gone is thy good king
Hear now the night cock a crow
Hear now the falling of stars
Pray now in candles aglow
Lay now ,thy hound of yester afar
Long are shadows of winter
Hangs now the skeleton king
Hangs now the sword o'er bed
And gone, gone, gone is the green
In ice, the tangled road
Tied in know an covered in snow
Far is thy morrow but drink not in Sorrow
Gone is the green
Gone is the green
But warm is thy hearth
Call ye now of torch an song
Praise ye now, fires of old
Call ye now, heroes an legends
Raise ye now, banquet and flagons
Call ye now thy sword in flame
Praise ye now, shine an blaze
Gone is the green
Gone is the green, but great is thy fireside
Call ye now of torch an song
Gone is the green but yellow thy sky
Gone is the green
Gone is the green, but great is thy thaw
And gone is the green
Gone is the green but warm is thy hearth
Great, great is thy song
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Thy hound of yester
05:04
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Dost thou remember, thy hound of yester?
Dost thou slow
Hast thou grown now old?
Dost thou hear the horn a' blow
Dost thou know thy winter has come?
Dost thou hear shining keep?
Dost thy feel the road like a serpent beneath thy feet
an festoon an gather thy hound of yester day
Thoust left thy youth an now shadows call, old
Wilst thou remember?
How green curleth the leaves
Dost thou remember thou briary place?
Of yester yore, of yester youre
Gather thy hound of yester
Call him from afar
See how he comes a bounding an bouncing
O'er windeth hills afar
Thy hands an face crack like parchment, leather bound
Thy scrolls lie unfound
An hear the call, through thy hills
Hear the call of thy faithful hound
And see him come
He was never far from your side
Mill now in open road an countryside
Hear thy hound of yester rebound
Now at thy feet, He is thine!
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6. |
A company of moles
04:20
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Wooden solitaire
Hedger of nowhere
Lost of house an home
Gnarled roads overgrown
Darksome, briary way
Animal funeral; blue an grey
Blackest night, befalls
The way spreads as claws
Whistles winds; the thorner's rede
Glows the moon, a skull
Opens the way, hoodwinked
In cape, Old Death, a' null
Inverse, the secret work
In blindness mines the hole
To forever labor the earth
A company of moles
Inverse, the secret work
In heart, mines the hole
To forever throw dirt
A company of Moles
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7. |
To raise a banquet hall
02:09
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Raise ye from thy slumber
Even sets, gloamy wonder
Hiil-men rise, count the number
Pileth thy lumber
An raise, a celebration tall
An raise, in wooden cup, to us all
Warm an round, bar an stall
To raise life an grave, in string an song
Feast, merry eve
in barrel an grail
In blizzard, blue an slow
Sets the fall of snow
To raise us all
To raise a banquet hall
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In empty court beset midnight
Round king, fool, fire and the hound
In circle the four did bind
Round hearth in company bound
The Sayeth King to Fool:
"Hear the bells of winter toil"
An Fool sayeth to his King:
"IN summer wine to winter I'll drink!"
An King said to the three:
"Hear the air warpeth an bend"
An fool sayeth to he:
"Drinketh not, I will to our ends."
An lay the hound below in chase
In dream, in estate without lease
Where the King, would the piper, pay
(Where)The fool in trick, could not reach
In hearth the fire found
In glow, as company of four
In a ring of holy circle bound
An in writ of heaven's court
On the bells of winter rang around
For king, fool, fire an the hound
An the bells of winter cull
The four back to the hibernal
In empty court beset midnight
Round King, fool, fire an the hound
In circle the four did bind
Round hearth in company bound
In company bound
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9. |
A mist once named
03:30
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Damp, wetteth cold
Lamp fallen day
Creep, in space an crease
In spaces fade am cease
Crawls with its dusk
Shines, the liar's moss
Sets, wandering mist
Beside the open flame
Once with home
Sits a mist, once names
Hills, green with gold
Banners twice told
Thrice deny,
Now in widdershins
A mist once named
Sits beside me in open flame
(Come sit with us by the fire?)
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10. |
Branding fire
01:57
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Azimuth, equinox
Hear the light, long the night
stare inside the branding fire
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11. |
The Alwyn horse fair
06:14
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