[Bards] New Piece for 25th Year

[Cathy Polakoff]

Ok, I'm inspired!
:-)

Anna b. Chaim

At 10:22 AM 04/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:


>Greetings unto the bards of Ansteorra --
>
>Hey, guys, it's Tiggy.
>
>Well, we have 25th Year comming up soon.  I'm working on a piece to help 
>comemorate it, and thought I'd drop it to the list.  I'm kinda working on 
>encouraging Ansteorran pieces here locally so that when the event comes 
>we're not all just sitting around looking at each other after ANOTHER 
>rendition of "The Rising of the Star."  <<grin>>
>
>Submitted (below) for your approval, this particular piece is called "We 
>Sing of Fifty Crowns," sung to the tune of the christian hymn, "Crown Him 
>with Many Crowns."
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>Much Thanx --
>Tig
>
>We sing of fifty crowns
>Beneath a sable star,
>See how the black & gold surrounds
>The noblest that there are.
> >From out of Adenvelt
>A sable star did rise,
>Through twenty-five years shining down:
>The brightest in the skies.
>
>We sing of a sable star
>That over all doth shine,
>Whose children bear upon their brow
>The mark of royal line.
>Oh, lift your voice and sing!
>The star that shines for thee
>Still shines untarneshed by the years
>Of a quarter century.
>
>We sing of a single crown
>That no one man may own,
>And though the sword may stake a claim,
>Still beauty makes her own.
>Adieu, to Adenvelt,
>Your child shall ne'er be far.
>For with the setting of the sun
>Comes the rising of the star.
>
>We sing of the black and gold
>For five and twenty years,
>Whose standard still is lifted high
>Through laughter and through tears.
>The pillars of our land
>On bended knee did vow,
>And on their shoulders side by side
>Stands Ansteorra now.
>
>
>
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