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From howling assaulters

The incessant siege

The one place of refuge

You can't ever leave

City of nine gates

Labyrinth of no escape

Poisoning all that is witnessed

Spies through twin traitor gates

Whisper sedition by night

As the great leveler awaits

Like dreams in the daylight

Warrior's discipline fades

By years of duress

Naught but a shell remains

Naught but a shell remains

By conflict unending

A war without cease

We've long stopped pretending

We'll ever know peace

And yet we go on

Fight to see another dawn

Regrouping where

Old gates are sealed

Fortified to bend

But never to yield

Each city unique

A haven of splendors

The one place of refuge

For weary defenders

And now the fires dim

In steady decline

Now but a memory

Fade into the fog of time

City of nine gates

Labyrinth of no escape