The End of Morentoff

A Tale of the Sixth Lichaf
Of the Life of Eudo the Wanderer

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In the center of the world
As the basis of your throne
I remember for your fortress
That you put your faith in stone

For you thought the stone was mighty
And the stone would never die
It resisted all rebellion
From the river and the sky

Can you see your foolish error?
How your power disappears
For your city has been weakened
By the passage of the years

You have said the stone is dauntless
In the face of all attack
But I spy a tiny sapling
Growing in a tiny crack

And beside the crack, the river!
For the dams have been destroyed
See the ending of the fortress
And the power you enjoyed

As I stand amidst the rubble
I am weeping many tears
For the evils of your tyranny
Have swallowed many years

But I smile in my sorrow
For the sun is rising high
And the stone was never living
So the stone shall ever die

From the presence of our footsteps
From our every joyous breath
From the echoes of our singing
Yes, the stone shall find its death!

And the stone that lies within me
Poisoned mind and poisoned blood
Still that stone shall find its ending
For my spirit is a flood!

We will find our treasured freedom
And the world will forgive
How we lost the path of virtue
And our souls shall ever
live

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