put chorus This is "Peri'el's Song", by Saesealm Faoilean. pause 6 put chorus Listen.. pause 6 put chorus Elanthians hear the tale often told;How the world we love weathered great woes;The Immortals conjoined to keep from the cold;The wide world;with its wondrous moons,;The strong sun itself;safe from spoil. pause 27 put chorus Their courage count great;their efforts immense;Guardians of all peoples;guide to this day;The wyrd of the world;safe for a while.;"Each played his part:;hear now of Peri'el's. pause 27 put chorus soft Soft slept in a cave,;in a cradle cavern;Peri'el counted her crystal;as it formed for the world;Cocooned in a crevice,;Peri'el dwelled;Surrounded by beauties;unborn to the world. pause 27 put chorus Drew delight in the colors and crystalline shapes,;Infinitely sweet she sang to the earth;Coaxing forth song-shaped;pieces of joy;Pyrite and diamonds,;idocrasse, cerussite,;Tourmaline, celandine,;Hav'roth's toys. pause 27 put chorus Then came the Dragon.. pause 6 put chorus Moved on the surface the shape of sound;Wings o'er the world, like a sigh in the trees;A sound-storm gathered,;as the Dragon descended.;Swiftly the fire-drake;sought fuel for Its heart;Cracked open the heavens,;blotted the stars. pause 27 put chorus Its moon-shell falling, plummeting down;Elanthia flooded. The Immortals amazed;Called forth to battle;kindled to war;The skies scorched;Elanthia flamed;All burning in battle;the Dragon came. pause 27 put chorus Then came the Dragon.. pause 6 put chorus War-wrath of Truffenyi, stirred by the scorch-storm,;Immortals sword-swinging a terrible toil;To wrestle the world;from the dragon-devourer.;A week they warred;weary but willful,;The fire still unquenched,;the Dragon unquelled. pause 27 put chorus The battle abated, the Dragon still lived.;Weary the Dragon, weary the warriors;Many were worried;the world itself died.;Phelim angered;ambushed the Dragon;Sanded Its eyes. pause 27 put chorus Then slept the storm-worm.. pause 6 put chorus Though the Dragon was bound,;disaster was dealt,;The World was bereft,;fire drained to its depth. pause 27 put chorus Peri'el warrior,;eyeless and useless;Crippled in combat,;no rune could restore, No magic remake her,;no salve should save her.;Endured to endure the dark world's death.;So softly she sang, singing she swept;Her hair from her face and single, pale eye. pause 27 put chorus Peri'el pointed --;the silent serpent;Would warm the world with Its wing.;Clearly she cried in a voice that could vibrate;The earth itself to order and shape,;'Bury the beast in the heart of the earth;'Let Its fire return what it took!' pause 27 put chorus A new lair they gave It,;the Dragon they covered;In a cold cavern;Peri'el found;In the heart of the earth;its heart It became;The hot-serpent slept;as Peri'el sang. pause 27 put chorus Phelim's sands she scattered;swift if It stirred,;Lullabye lured;the Dragon to lay;Slumbering still;It sleeps to her voice,;Her voice clear;as the quartz she once made. pause 27 put chorus She sings It the heavens;she sings It the soil;She sings It the wonders;buried below;She sings It the stars;faint but still falling;She sings the fire of her heart;and her soul. pause 27 put chorus Thus sleeps the Dragon.. pause 6 put chorus Put your ear to this shell,;thus Peri'el soothes It;It slumbers and warms us;we rest on Its wing. pause 27 put chorus Listen oh children, she sings to It still;In the breathing sleep of a babe;Or a loved one,;in a sea-shell;Or shush of the sea,;you might hear;How Peri'el put aside;singing bright stones.. pause 27 put chorus To sing soft the heart of the warm world.