Difference between revisions of "My Shield is Calling"

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(From the Battle of the Old Ford, 2946)

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-''I see! I see! My father before me!
+; ''To me! To me! My shield is calling;
-My brother's and mother's and sister's dead glory!
+; ''for brothers to keep, and my enemy's falling.
-They call me to sea and to white ship departing
+; ''Now courage! Now wrath; that my kinsmen once bore
-Not ere or until my bright shield is done guarding.
+; ''have quickened within me and cry out "To War!"
-Our foe! Our foe! The battle's near done!
-From red sun arising to red setting sun.
+; ''I see! I see! My father before me!
-Our deeds cast immortal in Rivendell's sonnets,
+; ''My brother's and mother's and sister's dead glory!
-for I'll go home with shield high or my body upon it!''
+; ''They call me to sea and to white ship departing
+; ''Not ere or until my bright shield is done guarding.
+; ''Our foe! Our foe! The battle's near done!
+; ''From red sun arising to red setting sun.
+; ''Our deeds cast immortal in Rivendell's sonnets,
+; ''for I'll go home with shield high or my body upon it!''
 (From the Battle of the Old Ford, 2946)