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| − | *Who holds Coinspinner knows good odds
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| − | *Whichever move he make
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| − | *But the Sword of Chance, to please the gods
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| − | *Slips from him like a snake.
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| − | *The Sword of Justice balances the pans
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| − | *Of right and wrong, and foul and fair.
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| − | *Eye for an eye, Doomgiver scans
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| − | *The fate of all folk everywhere.
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| − | *Dragonslicer, Dragonslicer, how d'you slay?
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| − | *Reaching for the heart in behind the scales.
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| − | *Dragonslicer, Dragonslicer, where do you stay?
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| − | *In the belly of the giant that my blade impales.
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| − | *Farslayer howls across the world
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| − | *For thy heart, for thy heart, who hast wronged me!
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| − | *Vengeance is his who casts the blade
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| − | *Yet he will in the end no triumph see.
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| − | *Whose flesh the Sword of Mercy hurts has drawn no breath;
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| − | *Whose soul it heals has wandered in the night,
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| − | *Has paid the summing of all debts in death
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| − | *Has turned to see returning light.
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| − | *The Mindsword spun in the dawn's gray light
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| − | *And men and demons knelt down before.
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| − | *The Mindsword flashed in the midday bright
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| − | *Gods joined the dance, and the march to war.
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| − | *It spun in the twilight dim as well
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| − | *And gods and men marched off to hell.
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| − | *I shatter Swords and splinter spears;
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| − | *None stands to Shieldbreaker.
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| − | *My point's the fount of orphans' tears
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| − | *My edge the widowmaker.
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| − | *The Sword of Stealth is given to
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| − | *One lonely and despised.
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| − | *Sightblinder's gifts: his eyes are keen
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| − | *His nature is disguised.
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| − | *The Tyrant's Blade no blood hath spilled
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| − | *But doth the spirit carve
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| − | *Soulcutter hath no body killed
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| − | *But many left to starve.
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| − | *The Sword of Siege struck a hammer's blow
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| − | *With a crash, and a smash, and a tumbled wall.
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| − | *Stonecutter laid a castle low
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| − | *With a groan, and a roar, and a tower's fall.
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| − | *Long roads the Sword of Fury makes
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| − | *Hard walls it builds around the soft
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| − | *The fighter who Townsaver takes
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| − | *Can bid farewell to home and croft.
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| − | *Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads
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| − | *Its master's step is brisk.
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| − | *The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads
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| − | *But adds unto their risk.
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