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Told thee have I of times now ceased?
Of winged ones that ruledc the East?
Of sacred rhymes from early times
Left now unsung by man or beast?
In days of old the Bards would sing
The psalms that dragonkind would bring.
And through this act, they formed a pact
To take to sky on crimson wings.
Although these times predate our kin,
They say that one of modern men
Did once recast this kinship past,
And thus his tale I shall begin...
And wand'ring minstrel left his land
With eager heart and lute your hand.
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Traverse did he the lands of yore
To meet with keepers of the Lore.
And studied he their melody
So that their songs be heard once more.
Round fireside the embers burned
As flasks of ale toward sky upturned.
When night was gone, he'd greet the dawn
With ancient hymns now aptly learned.
One song among them held his ear.
Once said to make great wyrms appear.
Found he a shore in mist-veiled moor
And solitude upon its pier.
Played he the song without a flaw,
And all the world seemed hushed with awe.
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Then sudden came a gust that could
Dismantle rock and splinter wood.
And from the wind, the mist rescind,
And when it cleared, there dragon stood!
But could thee guess what did he then,
Confronted thus by dragonkin?
Devoid of fear or peril near,
He climbed upon the dragon's skin.
His earthly inhibitions freed,
The dragon bowed forth, taking heed.
He mounted back on scales of black,
Ascending on his mighty steed.
This was the brotherhood retold
Of man and beast from times of old!
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Then out they set upon the breeze,
And left behind the earthbound trees
To find in air a kingdom there
Of trans-terrestrial majesties.
Through red horizons they did soar,
Splitting the clouds with fervid roar.
And breaching sky through heavens high,
They flew beyond all land and shore.
But as they sailed amid the blue.
His hunger for excitement grew.
He took egress with eagerness
To learn all that this beast could do.
Now man would come to understand
The strength this creature did command.
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They flipped and spun on zephyr's flow,
Traversing thrills few men could know.
And dizzied eyes scarce recognized,
The skies above from earth below.
Down close to ground the dragon flew.
A great canyon came into view.
With fevered pace and feardisplaced,
Into its walls entered the two.
Through crags and peaks the dragon weaved,
It's thrusting wings great boulders heaved.
And this devised before their eyes
A peril neither had conceived.
Not thus disturbed in century's lapse,
The frail walls started to collapse.
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The canyon walls began to quake,
And vast peaks crumbled in the wake.
In deadly delves they found themselves
Now faced by Death with life at stake.
The shattered crevice did resound
With pained roars of an earth unbound.
As spires teemed, it scarcely seemed
That escape from their doom be found.
But both in man and beast doth thrive
A shared conviction to survive.
They found their chance in moment's glance,
And breached the canyon's peaks alive.
Beneath them all the ground caved in,
Leaving fissure where earth had been.
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Returned they to the seaborne clouds,
Ascending all the heaven's shroud.
To rule at last their Kingdom vast,
As all over the world below them bowed.
With sun's descent and darkness near,
The two returned to mist-veiled pier.
Leaving him there, the beast took air
And in the night sky disappeared.
And though his journey reached its end.
His heart longed once more to ascend.
And to this day he still will play
That fateful song upon the wind.
So if for freedom your heart yearn,
A dragon may for you return!
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