A Hostile Fate (The Wayfarer Pt. 4) - Winterfylleth

But lo, the exile beseeches

He who art mournful of voice

The summer’s bright warden to sing

And so the harshness of frost dispel

Yet sorrows announce, bitter of heart

Eroding of life, a hostile fate

A spirit as the sea-flood, wide

A distant, pale sun fades for he

Fallen is now this spleandour all

Joys are broken, passed away

The weaker remain, hold in this world

Wax old and sere, age comes for him

Yet sorrows announce, bitter of heart

Eroding of life, a hostile fate

A spirit as the sea-flood, wide

A distant, pale sun fades for he

Those yearned for he grieves, long of day

And knows his friends of old, in earth decayed

The sons of noble ones

Are to the earth

The sons of noble ones

Are to the earth enshrined

May not his body then, when life erodes

Pain feel, nor withered hand move

Nor shall his mind race to the dawn

But may absolution come