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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