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Ethusel
ETHUSEL Sandv Denny
I saw a dark star against the black sky Of a night thirteen hundred years long It cast shrouding shadows upon the desert Of the dark moons that formed in her eyes.
'On the ... of her back the sun never smiled And the noon of the day was in shadow And the sky left its beard on the black barren earth And the ... was found in her eyes.
On a shrine of black flowers Ethusel lay dead As he had for thirteen centuries At his feet five crows stood and watched to his keep And the whisper of time sighed around the hills.
Panasowna has tried fair wind for a steed Though the sky's in search of the star And the serpent entwined about the stag's head Tried to reach out and poison her hair.
'O no, Panasowna, you will not go far Ethusel has only one hour Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com And if you do not reach him before it is over Then the other falls into the ocean.
'Panasowna took her pen and she stabbed the serpent's eye And he fell through the clouds to the land. As she rode on and on full of laden stones With horizons of life in her unsung.
'It was then that the daylight became the dark night She recalled what the farmer had said: When the night becomes black and no sound can be heard, You have come to the land of the night.
'And she found the dark star hanging low in the sky And she gathered it up in her arms And she rode to the shrine where Ethusel lay dead And she placed the dark star in her hair.
And the star became bright and it shone on the land And the shrouds of darkness were gone And Ethusel was standing before Panasowna And the light came to bear in her hair.
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