# "Masterbard's Lament...

**URL:** https://forum.paravia.com/t/masterbards-lament/143
**Category:** Wars of Light and Shadow
**Tags:** 07-TraitorsKnot
**Created:** [November 13, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/masterbards-lament/143 "2005-11-13T05:59:00Z")
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### Author: ![jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/user_avatar/forum.paravia.com/jannywurts/32/31_2.png) [@jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/u/jannywurts)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/masterbards-lament/143/2 "2005-11-13T15:59:00Z")

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Konran - You Asked.   
   
I did post this once, before, but it was in an unrelated topic…which is long since scrubbed out.   
   
Your rerun of the complete lyric:   
   
Masterbard's Lament for the Widows of Dier Kenton Vale   
Arithon s'Ffalenn   
Third Age Year 5647   
   
   
   
If tears were hardened stone to carve   
 a monument to grief,   
would we let loss and trouble starve   
 our spirits for belief?   
Our men have gone from home and hearth   
 and faith has made us weep.   
   
If feet that marched the earth to war   
 could count their wounds by steel,   
and blood that scorched clean ground in gore   
 could speak in words that feel,   
the cry would ring forevermore   
 for mercy and repeal!   
   
If song could hold sharp edge to fight   
 through distrust, rage and fears,   
and hope blaze up as blinding light   
 to burn through pain and tears,   
if heart touched mind, and eyes held sight   
 would blight and blame not clear?   
   
If vengeful shouts toward mercy bent,   
 and care unstopped deaf ears,   
would every spirit not transcend   
 to bind up hurts and heal?   
Would every voice not cry to end   
 the sorrows of the years?   
   
If tears were hardened stone to carve   
 inscribe my cry for life:   
let no man raise his unsheathed sword,   
 may no man draw his knife,   
that this, our sore and grieving land   
 waste no more hearts to strife!   
   
No cause is scribed in fire and star –   
 then whose truth must we heed?   
Why bind the will and blind the heart   
 more lives to rend and bleed?   
Our men have gone from home and hearth   
 and hate has made us weep!   
   
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