Lirama

The lord of the ages  rode one night
Out through the gateways of time.
Astride a great charger in a cloak of white samite
He flew on the air like a storm.
Dark was the night for he'd gathered the stars in his hand
To light a path through the sky
While the hooves of his charger made comets of fire
Bewitching all eyes that beheld them.

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Lord of the ages nobody knows
Wither he goes nobody knows

Below a dark forest in caves of black granite
The children of darkness dwelled in oblivion
Betraying one another in endless confusion
For the lord of the dark had bewitched them.
From time's first creation the wise men and prophets
And all workers of magic had warned of the reckoning
Of the wind and the fire and the plague of destruction
That follows the path of evil.

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Far above the wide ocean and thundering rivers
And through the sun and the rain
And the turn of the seasons
Rode the god of all knowing.
While all around him celestial companions
Friends from the void before time was woven
Honour his crown with words of white fire
And carry his robes of light.

Wither he goes nobody knows

But in the peace of a valley a young child was born
Filling the night with his crying.
And an old man gave thanks to the lord of the ages
Whose battle is not with innocence.
But the birds of the air were silent
Knowing the time had come when time was forgotten.
The waters were stilled, the mountains stood empty.

And the cities were deaf long long ago. (5x)

Enough cried a voice and the earth was awakened
The poor and the rich felt the plague and the fire,
Death and destruction rode out together
Turning the world to a funeral pyre.

It was the lord of the ages
Gathering in the harvest
It was the lord of the ages
Gathering in the harvest

Gathering in the harvest (5x)

And from the blood
and the thunder of men and their dying,
His eyes dark with sorrow
The lord of the ages gathered in his harvest

Gathering in the harvest

But to the old and the helpless
To the weak and the humble
To the children of light
His words of compassion breathed on them gently
Dissolving the darkness across the great valley that rumbled with fire.
And from the death and destruction
The lord of the ages carried the fruits of the harvest
To freedom.

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