Enjoy this reading of the poem Hymn to Fire, part of the Five hymns series by Quivaylan Soth (Michael Williams), the Bard of Ansalon. This poem first appeared in The History of Dragonlance: Being the Notes, Journals, and Memorabilia of Krynn, released on June 1st, 1995. Buy The History of Dragonlance: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/197643/The-History-of-Dragonlance-2e?affiliate_id=50797
Five Hymns: Hymn to Fire
The constellations are a wheel of fire
Fire on fire interlinking
In all the great machineries of heaven,
The sun, the revolving moons,
And looking up into the work of hands,
Into the gods’ contraption
Where night descends like clockwork, like the play
And tumult of devices,
Presents an intricate philosophy
A nature rapt by numbers.
Oh, do not tell us that the gods’ first faces
Were simple and profound.
It is a fiction of the human year
A winter maintaining that
We strip away all glitter, all device
The intricate bells and whistles
And underneath them all, there lie the gods.
Divinity is intricate
The blue corona on the lip of flame
The jeweler’s gear enmeshed
With instruments of joy, with steam and powder.
Love is an intricate engine,
Moving and unmoved, it scatters fire
Over mandala and zodiac
It scatters fire into the fallow night,
Each whistle and each bell, each clang and clatter
The heart’s theology.
So let the hymn, like well-considered incense
Rise on a draft of air,
Let blueprint of the mechanism fade
And torque and velocity dwindle,
We are the ones who fashion these, our hands
Limned and mortal in days.
Let hymns ignite upon the edge of stars,
Let them wheel and intertwine,
Creating elaborate music in the sky,
High above Nevermind and our devices,
And then in fashioned daylight we will voyage
Past sun and stars into the source of light.
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