DragonWing
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes.
Honor those the dragon heeds
In thought and favor, word and deed,
Worlds are lost or wolrds are saved
From the dangers dragon-braved.
Dragonman, avoid excess:
Greed will bring the Weyr distress:
To the ancient Law adhere
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr.
Holder, watch; Holder, learn
Something new in every turn.
Oldest may be coldest, too
Sense the right: find the true!
Black, blacker, blackest
And cold beyond frozen things.
Where is between when there is naught
To life but fragile dragons' wings?
Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing
Lord of the Hold, your charge is sure
In thick walls, metal doors, and no verdure
Who wills,
Can.
Who tries,
Does.
Who loves,
Lives.
Wheel and turn
Or bleed and burn.
Fly between,
Blue and green.
Soar, dive down,
Bronze and brown.
Dragonmen must fly
When threads are in the sky.
Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing
Then my feet took off and my legs went, too,
So my body was obliged to follow me,
With my hands and my mouth full of cress
And my throat too dry to swallow.
The little queen, all golden
Flew hissing at the sea.
To keep it back,
To turn it back
She flew forth bravely.
Dragonman, Dragonman,
Between thee and thine,
Share me that glimpse of love
Greater than mine.
Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away...
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