Toward defiled lands We gaze before the ravine Carved by falling waters Set ablaze by the deceiver Once flowing with hope Now frozen with grief The barren mire strays Embraced by fallen trees Seeking the hidden gates Obscured by a blackened cloak Sweeping through mountainous shadows We move ever onward Through the brush and over veiled roads To an unshown city of stone My heart longing for deep seas By wood and sinew I forge songs of thee Before deep sullen dales Pierced by fading green Revealed a fearsome path Shrouded by undergrowth Light strangled by darkness Through cavernous depths Deceived by echoes foray Glaring down into cold unknown Over the mountains and through the gates To an unshown city of stone Towards a place where far light glimmers Where one will be free from thralldom whispers Gazing upon the great walls of stone Its towers reach far beyond the sky Many fair pathways lay across the plain At last we have reached our home None may be free to enter our unknown halls For shadows lurk beyond our great walls