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learnteach) wrote2006-05-17 08:45 am
learnteach) wrote2006-05-17 08:45 am
To the West
A Great song by Leigh Ann Hussey.
This song was commanded by my Prince at the time I was Bard of the Mists, Brandon d'Arundel, in the year AS XVIII. After a seven-year hiatus from the Society, I completed the song at Twelfth Night, AS XXVI.
A brief word of explaination: Arthur, St. Brendan, Bran Mac Febal, and hundreds more down the ages have sought or traveled to the Land of the Ever-Living, the Otherworld, or simply the life they could not have where they already were. They all went westward to seek that land; we live in it.
The hawk soars high o'er yonder hill,
the stag bells in the glen,
the whale chants wild in waters chill,
the bear dreams in her den.
They call me to return again,
they set me on my way
chorus:
Where the twilight seals the day,
to the West, to the West,
I am summond as the dreamers come before.
With my wounds all healed away,
like the sun I will rest,
where my vision leads, along the Western shore.
I'll bless the bonny ship that brings
me leave and liberty
to wend the way of saints and kings
and souls across the sea
I'll seek the voice that sings to me
and draws me on my way
(chorus)
My eyes shall see my fortune clear,
My tongue shall rightly tell,
My heart shall hold my dreaming dear,
My hands shall build it well.
The land they sought, where now we dwell
Is ever on the way
(chorus)
Permission to copy and distribute granted, provided this notice is preserved: copyright 1992, Leigh Ann Huss
This song was commanded by my Prince at the time I was Bard of the Mists, Brandon d'Arundel, in the year AS XVIII. After a seven-year hiatus from the Society, I completed the song at Twelfth Night, AS XXVI.
A brief word of explaination: Arthur, St. Brendan, Bran Mac Febal, and hundreds more down the ages have sought or traveled to the Land of the Ever-Living, the Otherworld, or simply the life they could not have where they already were. They all went westward to seek that land; we live in it.
The hawk soars high o'er yonder hill,
the stag bells in the glen,
the whale chants wild in waters chill,
the bear dreams in her den.
They call me to return again,
they set me on my way
chorus:
Where the twilight seals the day,
to the West, to the West,
I am summond as the dreamers come before.
With my wounds all healed away,
like the sun I will rest,
where my vision leads, along the Western shore.
I'll bless the bonny ship that brings
me leave and liberty
to wend the way of saints and kings
and souls across the sea
I'll seek the voice that sings to me
and draws me on my way
(chorus)
My eyes shall see my fortune clear,
My tongue shall rightly tell,
My heart shall hold my dreaming dear,
My hands shall build it well.
The land they sought, where now we dwell
Is ever on the way
(chorus)
Permission to copy and distribute granted, provided this notice is preserved: copyright 1992, Leigh Ann Huss
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- alys