Lamenting Shield-maid Lyrics
sunbeams play in blooming trees. She was toldto be born in battle and brought up among dismal and death. Skilled in the craft of killing and fight, the girl learned to bear weapons anda sword did she yield. No worse than her peers she held up her shield and grew into a maiden, a fair one and strong. And there among warriors all grim-faced and tall she eventually found her life and her love. And in an ancient old forest ofgreen they used to meet in their ardour and lust. They embraced each other and only the trees heard their sighs full of pleasure shared under the veil of the moon...Yet they had to part soon as the battlefield called and brought them apart for many aleague and for months she was sundered fromhis godly voice and this is the song that she sang :Ho! To the battle I wentAnd killed many a mightier men(and even a troll!)And my sorrow withdrewAs I drowned my woesIn the deaths of my enemiesAnd the blood of my foesVictories healed her and gave her the strength to rival the severance and the grief of long nights...Once roaming along an old brook in the wood, she heard voices and sound of a battle not far -so unsheathing her sword the maid hastened for help and could not believe her emerald eyes whenshe percieved Him lying in the rushes alone with crimson red cloud of blood spreading around,all pierced with sharp arrows and hewn into parts. To the ancient green forest had he evidently returned to seek shades of their happiness long left behind, but ambushed by enemies andgrievously wounded he was as she leant over him and wept...The shield-maid mourned longbeside his deep grave, dug by her own hands in a shadowy meadow in the ancient forest ofmenacing old. And this is her last lamenting chant :Now to my final battle I must goAll I ever had is now buried and lostAnd he whom I cherished has taken my strengthAway to the halls where life never ends There now I shall follow and meet him againAnd among the undying flowers and trees We'll walk hand in hand in the gardens of death
Heresiarh Lamenting Shield-maid
