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Once upon a primordial shore

On sandaled feet, apposing the waters

Brigades of men, combatants of old

Point their steel at a setting sun

Lo, the light retreats

And wild beasts tarry not

For their nightly hibernation

Though ghosts of war dance on the waves

I remember long ago

When carefree we fished the rivers

As children it was our own world

In the chasms of yesteryear

I can see now the battlefield

Blood and water merge

A river blackened with death

Endless dark rivers

These lands have been forsaken

Tainted by swords of fury

Drink not the graveyard waters

The streams are flowing poison

A curse upon us all

All has been for naught

Lands scorched with war

Blighted by onslaught

Ruined tides, blood of many

Contamination from shore to plain

A river blackened with death

Endless dark rivers