Five Hymns: Hymn to Water

Enjoy this reading of the poem Hymn to Water, 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 Water

Sing praise to the armies of water,

Sing praise to the dolphins

To the bright constellation

Of moonlight fractured on spindrift,

Sing praise to the hallowed

Current of blood.

     We were born of the water,

Of the godhead glancing

On the face of the oceans like moonlight:

The youngest of elements,

Water, the blood of the gods,

Its first home the harbors

Of Ergoth and Balifor,

The splendid and featureless

Ice and marble

Of doomed and imperial Istar.

Water our source

And water our mother,

The warm, amniotic

swell of the tide,

The perpetual rain

Or seeming perpetual

As river and rivulet

Fade in the fire

Disappear in the stations of earth.

     Praise to the element

Fluid and human,

To its sudden arisings

Cascadings and vanishings,

Praise above all

To the water’s resurgence,

To the prospect of rain

In a desert country,

The faint and coppery

Hint of a river

In the cavern’s depth

In the height of the mountains

The rumor of springs,

     Oh as Istar falls

And Ergoth surrenders,

Palanthas and Balifor

Crumble and rise in our hands,

Praise to the water,

Exact and eternal,

The passion of cloud

And miraged horizons,

For the brief supple downpour

Of dolphin on dolphin,

The journey of humankind

Over the promise of seas.

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