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The firesider's companion

by Teddy Horse

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The firesider's companion 04:27
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Sparkles an crackles now, the good fire side Speaketh an keepeth, the brenton to the bryne Creepeth an leapeth, the flames this eventtide Painteth an changeth on walls, falls the night Keepth and waxeth, moon in winter white Blesseth and wexeth, in silver starry light Frost hath setteth, blue bendeth binds Longer than the songer, roads windeth far behind firesider an fire, fellowhood now bind fire an scryer, in holy orange now shine moon song an star in choir now rise dreamy sleep in song low, companions now find O'er the hearth, the Horsehoe red with glow Frost hath set bitten o'er all who are throned Cowled in thy penance, gated in golden gloam Mighty is the beetle's pince, frozen in night's HOLD...
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The spangled flame 04:37
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Thy cloaken night In milk white wood In thorn winds bite Thy frock an hood Thy song an dream in winter's scowl Hear field mice scream Eaten by the owl In badger's hole neath frozen springs IN sleep of mole neath trap of dreams houses without true stars thou hast true home in weasel's gnarl in badger's hole the fallow grave: "It is not thy time" In badger's hole neath frozen springs In sleep of mole neath trap of dreams The fallow grave: "It is not thy time" In badger's hole neath frozen springs In sleep of mole neath trap of dreams High above in blaze a star in bryne Blessed in a gaze To learn now its shine In its sleep the ice said to thee: "Break fountain's curse and thy fire's freeze" Then sang The spangled flame : "Ive come to live for but a night I have come to eat all I meet I have come to dnace and dine I am come to burn an leap"
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Albion slept 03:16
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Albion slept as I dreamed Once adorned with keep an spire Albion slept as I dreamed And she lies in white of sepulcher an her eyes closed with winter Low she speaks of lovers an lords she's known through pillow an sheet of secret name written on wintering sword Low, flames speak through open fire an stone Of gowan an gown, aglow See now, her face in the fire See now her sceptre of olde See how her hair, a'briar See how burns her throne See the bloody rivers of tribes See the dragon, in meteor fall See the liars an scribes See them lifting her dress See stones, weeping, confess See now falme, bare and undressed Albion slept as i dreamed Once adorned in keep an spire Albion slept as I dreamed An she will return an her eyes will be red with FIRE
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Gone is the green 05:19
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Empty the cold naked throne Bare the crown of thy lord Bald the grave of headless stone Full the stag in tangle of horns Tears the wind against the oak And gone is parting of leaves Blue is the cold now be becloaked And gone, gone is thy good king Hear now the night cock a crow Hear now the falling of stars Pray now in candles aglow Lay now ,thy hound of yester afar Long are shadows of winter Hangs now the skeleton king Hangs now the sword o'er bed And gone, gone, gone is the green In ice, the tangled road Tied in know an covered in snow Far is thy morrow but drink not in Sorrow Gone is the green Gone is the green But warm is thy hearth Call ye now of torch an song Praise ye now, fires of old Call ye now, heroes an legends Raise ye now, banquet and flagons Call ye now thy sword in flame Praise ye now, shine an blaze Gone is the green Gone is the green, but great is thy fireside Call ye now of torch an song Gone is the green but yellow thy sky Gone is the green Gone is the green, but great is thy thaw And gone is the green Gone is the green but warm is thy hearth Great, great is thy song
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Thy hound of yester 05:04
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Dost thou remember, thy hound of yester? Dost thou slow Hast thou grown now old? Dost thou hear the horn a' blow Dost thou know thy winter has come? Dost thou hear shining keep? Dost thy feel the road like a serpent beneath thy feet an festoon an gather thy hound of yester day Thoust left thy youth an now shadows call, old Wilst thou remember? How green curleth the leaves Dost thou remember thou briary place? Of yester yore, of yester youre Gather thy hound of yester Call him from afar See how he comes a bounding an bouncing O'er windeth hills afar Thy hands an face crack like parchment, leather bound Thy scrolls lie unfound An hear the call, through thy hills Hear the call of thy faithful hound And see him come He was never far from your side Mill now in open road an countryside Hear thy hound of yester rebound Now at thy feet, He is thine!
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A company of moles 04:20
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Wooden solitaire Hedger of nowhere Lost of house an home Gnarled roads overgrown Darksome, briary way Animal funeral; blue an grey Blackest night, befalls The way spreads as claws Whistles winds; the thorner's rede Glows the moon, a skull Opens the way, hoodwinked In cape, Old Death, a' null Inverse, the secret work In blindness mines the hole To forever labor the earth A company of moles Inverse, the secret work In heart, mines the hole To forever throw dirt A company of Moles
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To raise a banquet hall 02:09
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Raise ye from thy slumber Even sets, gloamy wonder Hiil-men rise, count the number Pileth thy lumber An raise, a celebration tall An raise, in wooden cup, to us all Warm an round, bar an stall To raise life an grave, in string an song Feast, merry eve in barrel an grail In blizzard, blue an slow Sets the fall of snow To raise us all To raise a banquet hall
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King, fool, fire and the hound 05:20
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In empty court beset midnight Round king, fool, fire and the hound In circle the four did bind Round hearth in company bound The Sayeth King to Fool: "Hear the bells of winter toil" An Fool sayeth to his King: "IN summer wine to winter I'll drink!" An King said to the three: "Hear the air warpeth an bend" An fool sayeth to he: "Drinketh not, I will to our ends." An lay the hound below in chase In dream, in estate without lease Where the King, would the piper, pay (Where)The fool in trick, could not reach In hearth the fire found In glow, as company of four In a ring of holy circle bound An in writ of heaven's court On the bells of winter rang around For king, fool, fire an the hound An the bells of winter cull The four back to the hibernal In empty court beset midnight Round King, fool, fire an the hound In circle the four did bind Round hearth in company bound In company bound
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A mist once named 03:30
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Damp, wetteth cold Lamp fallen day Creep, in space an crease In spaces fade am cease Crawls with its dusk Shines, the liar's moss Sets, wandering mist Beside the open flame Once with home Sits a mist, once names Hills, green with gold Banners twice told Thrice deny, Now in widdershins A mist once named Sits beside me in open flame (Come sit with us by the fire?)
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Branding fire 01:57
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Azimuth, equinox Hear the light, long the night stare inside the branding fire
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The Alwyn horse fair 06:14
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released February 2, 2024

Winter 2023-24
All music, lyrics by T. Horse

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