Era una noche oscura y tormentosa

Era una noche oscura y tormentosa

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"An ancient horror settled on the street, (...) To choke the summer's final breath complete In a dark sepulchre of winter's cold. And well I knew in that dead hour of night That autumn brought no simple change of year, But an old ice-god rising in his might To claim the world in desolation drear."

Answer me, Alvis! thou knowest all, Dwarf, of the doom of men: What call they the night, the daughter of Nor, In each and every world? "Night' men call it, 'Darkness' gods name it, 'The Hood' the holy ones high; The giants 'The Lightless,' the elves 'Sleep's joy" The dwarfs 'The Weaver of Dreams."

"Wave-runes learn, if well thou wouldst shelter The sail-steeds out on the sea; On the stem shalt thou write, ❘ and the steering blade, And burn them into the oars; Though high be the breakers, ❘ and black the waves, Thou shalt safe the harbor seek." #WyrdWednesday