Remembrance of Rites Past

Hail to Our Queen with her talon’d feet;
Whose wings no wind may tame;
With Life in her heart and a knife in her hand,
Each grave declares her fame!
Hail to Our King with his cloven feet;
With horned skull and cane;

With Death in his heart and a laugh on his lips,
no man dare speak his name!
Hail to their horse with its eight black feet;
With the sky for tail and mane;
With the forge in its heart and the world for its skin,
And amid its bones sits Qayin!
Hail to Our Land with its four great streams
of North, West, South and East.
All-hail to the Path that turns our step
‘twixt God and Man and Beast!

“Salute of the Knave and the Maid to the Turnskin’s Retinue” © Andrew Chumbley

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