In the year of AS XXX, the north of Ansteorra was tested and tempered. Death stalked our land, and took one in every hundred. Many people asked me to write songs for those that left us, but I found those to be unsingable songs. However, Master Lucais spoke words at one of the gravesides that still ring in my ears. He told a parable of a ship and the two shores it traveled between. And as he finished speaking a flock of sea gulls rose and flew out of sight. This is his tale shaped into a song, for all of us who cried together that year. (1996- Lyrics & Tune by Rhiannon Redwulf)

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Lucais’ Ship Song

On a sad gray day, stands a ship in the bay,
Waiting to take our loved ones away.
As she sails from our sight on that day,
We’ll cry, “There she goes. She’s away.”
But...

Refrain:
On another shore, stand old friends
Who watch the blue horizons.
When they see the main sail, blown by the wind,
They cry, “Here she comes, here she comes.”

On that other shore stands a great golden hall,
A fire is lit, the boards are laid.
All around, standing friends line the hall,
Cups in hand, a toast to be made.
For...

Refrain

For all of us, the white ship sails,
Taking us from our kith and our kin.
But remember this as she sails,
Each parting, a welcome will become.
For...

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