Shield My Kinsmen
| Wyndreth Berginsdottir |
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Shield my kinsmen from their foes
and from the teeth of the wind. Shield my kinsmen from sorrow and from shame until fate brings us shoulder to shoulder to stand as brothers again. We are the children of the ice and snow and of the golden plains and rolling hills. We are the children of the water, cold and wide, and cool dark forests-- we are the people we are the people of our home, Northshield. The winter tries to break us on its anvil made of ice but our blood beats hot and true as steel. Not a drop of it is spilled on our pure white snow but what was bought by rivers Crimson rivers crimson rivers of our foemens' own! We are the keepers of our future and our past and the names of our heroes passed and gone on whose courage, strength and wisdom the Northshield stands-- teach their stories to your children To our children 'til their names are written in our blood and bone. Now we run behind the hawk who leads the way to war for he flies in the fashion that we live-- like a keen and blooded spear poised at the Dragon's side we will face our foemen and fight for the honor Fight for the honor of our home, Northshield! Shield my kinsmen from their foes and from the teeth of the wind. Shield my kinsmen from sorrow and from shame until fate brings us shoulder to shoulder to stand as brothers again. ©1996 Karen L.U. Kahan |
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