Post by Fiwana on Jul 15, 2009 12:07:07 GMT -5
The Duty Song (March of the Wings):
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow,
Harper, strike, and soldier, go.
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Till the dawning Red Star passes.
From the Weyr and from the Bowl,
Bronze and brown and blue and green,
Rise the dragonmen on Pern,
Aloft, on wing, seen, then unseen.
Honor those the dragons heed,
In thought and favor, word and deed.
Worlds are lost and worlds are saved,
From those dangers dragon-braved.
Dragonman, avoid excess;
Greed will bring the Weyr distress;
To the ancient Laws adhere,
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr.
The Watchwher song:
Watch-wher, watch-wher,
In your lair,
Watch well, watch-where!
Who goes there?
Lord of the Hold, your charge is sure.
In thick walls, metal doors, and no verdure.
The Golden Egg of Faranth:
By the Golden Egg of Faranth
By the Weyrwoman, wise and true,
Breed a flight of bronze and brown wings<
Breed a flight of green and blue.
Breed riders, strong and daring,
Dragon-loving, born as hatched,
Flight of hundreds soraing skyward,
Man and dragon fully matched.
Red Star Passes:
Seas boil and mountians move,
Sands heat, dragons prove
Red Star passes,
Stones piles and fires burn,
Green withers, arm Pern.
Guard all passes.
Star Stone watch, scan sky.
Ready the Weyrs, all riders fly;
Red Star Passes.
Star Stone Song:
The Finger points
At an eye blood-red.
Alert the Weyrs
To sear the Thread.
Mating Song:
Rise in glory,
Bronze and gold.
Dive entwined,
Enhance the Hold.
Count three months and more
And five heated weeks,
A day of glory and
In a month who seeks?
A strand of silver
In the sky...
With heat, all quickens
And all times fly.
Crack dust, black dust:
Crack dust, blackdust,
turn in freezing air.
Waste dust, spacedust,
From Red Star bare.
Fighting Thread:
Wheel and turn
Or bleed and burn.
Fly between,
Blue and green.
Soar, dive down,
Bronze and brown
Dragonmen must fly
When Threads are in the sky.
The Question Song:
Gone away, gone ahead,
Echoes away, gone unansweréd.
Empty, open, dusty, dead.
Why have all the Weyrfolk fled?
Where have dragons gone together?
Leaving Weyrs to wind and weather?
Setting heardbeasts free of tether?
Gone, our safeguards, gone, but whither?
Have they flown to some new Weyr
Where cruel Thread some others fear?
Are they worlds away from here?
Why, oh, why, the empty Weyr?
The Fire-lizard song:
The little queen, all golden
Flew at the sea.
To keep it back,
To turn it back
She flew forth bravely.
As she attacked the sea in rage
A holderman came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky.
He stared at her in wonder
For often he'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold.
He saw her plight and quickly
He looked up the cliff he faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs he placed.
The little queen all golden
Upon his shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude.
(and of course the lyric-less Moreta's Ride)
All information from the official Pern archives poetry section. (Mods do not edit for character created ballads, there will be a different thread once our Harpers start making songs.)
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow,
Harper, strike, and soldier, go.
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Till the dawning Red Star passes.
From the Weyr and from the Bowl,
Bronze and brown and blue and green,
Rise the dragonmen on Pern,
Aloft, on wing, seen, then unseen.
Honor those the dragons heed,
In thought and favor, word and deed.
Worlds are lost and worlds are saved,
From those dangers dragon-braved.
Dragonman, avoid excess;
Greed will bring the Weyr distress;
To the ancient Laws adhere,
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr.
The Watchwher song:
Watch-wher, watch-wher,
In your lair,
Watch well, watch-where!
Who goes there?
Lord of the Hold, your charge is sure.
In thick walls, metal doors, and no verdure.
The Golden Egg of Faranth:
By the Golden Egg of Faranth
By the Weyrwoman, wise and true,
Breed a flight of bronze and brown wings<
Breed a flight of green and blue.
Breed riders, strong and daring,
Dragon-loving, born as hatched,
Flight of hundreds soraing skyward,
Man and dragon fully matched.
Red Star Passes:
Seas boil and mountians move,
Sands heat, dragons prove
Red Star passes,
Stones piles and fires burn,
Green withers, arm Pern.
Guard all passes.
Star Stone watch, scan sky.
Ready the Weyrs, all riders fly;
Red Star Passes.
Star Stone Song:
The Finger points
At an eye blood-red.
Alert the Weyrs
To sear the Thread.
Mating Song:
Rise in glory,
Bronze and gold.
Dive entwined,
Enhance the Hold.
Count three months and more
And five heated weeks,
A day of glory and
In a month who seeks?
A strand of silver
In the sky...
With heat, all quickens
And all times fly.
Crack dust, black dust:
Crack dust, blackdust,
turn in freezing air.
Waste dust, spacedust,
From Red Star bare.
Fighting Thread:
Wheel and turn
Or bleed and burn.
Fly between,
Blue and green.
Soar, dive down,
Bronze and brown
Dragonmen must fly
When Threads are in the sky.
The Question Song:
Gone away, gone ahead,
Echoes away, gone unansweréd.
Empty, open, dusty, dead.
Why have all the Weyrfolk fled?
Where have dragons gone together?
Leaving Weyrs to wind and weather?
Setting heardbeasts free of tether?
Gone, our safeguards, gone, but whither?
Have they flown to some new Weyr
Where cruel Thread some others fear?
Are they worlds away from here?
Why, oh, why, the empty Weyr?
The Fire-lizard song:
The little queen, all golden
Flew at the sea.
To keep it back,
To turn it back
She flew forth bravely.
As she attacked the sea in rage
A holderman came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky.
He stared at her in wonder
For often he'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold.
He saw her plight and quickly
He looked up the cliff he faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs he placed.
The little queen all golden
Upon his shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude.
(and of course the lyric-less Moreta's Ride)
All information from the official Pern archives poetry section. (Mods do not edit for character created ballads, there will be a different thread once our Harpers start making songs.)