Enjoy this reading of the poem Hymn to Memory, 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 Memory
If we forget you, Silvanost,
the fragmented vault
of birch and vallenwood
which is always diminishing,
If we forget
the sorcerous tower
the black harp of the river,
If we forget you, let memory lose
its imagined meaning
in a net of leaves,
Let star and cenotaph
cool uninhabited
and a thousand years
unpeople the country of sleep.
Earth and water, fire and air
are the seeds of the world,
memory its soil
which we do not forget.
In the days of waiting,
when the seed in secret
takes root and grows,
the promise of light,
the nurture of air and water
find union in memory,
Silvanost, lest we forget.
And a thousand years
and the ruin of empires
are survived by the air
and the earth and the light
and water and memory,
memory binding together
the last breath of empire
with the advent of breath.
Oh, if we forget you
let mountain and river
let red moon and summer
still in our heartbeats,
let the dream of the elves
fragment and diminish,
and perpetual winter
nest in the skeletal trees.
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