User:RelentlessRecusant/Of Midwinter Zephyr

"Of Midwinter Zephyr" was a poem anonymously published at the closure of the Human-Covenant War.

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''I did chance upon a yonder land,

''Seduced by her sweet beckons,

''Drawn into the midnight rapture,

''I glimpsed beyond the veil's azure,

''Uncaged by freedom,

''I doted beyond the constraints of liberty,

''Realized the realm boundless,

''And it was there I feared the mind,

''Of Joshua's folly

''Of the midwinter zephyr

''Of azure dawn and scarlet touch

''My flesh ashen,

''I did dare to visit,

''Beyond the depthless sea,

''Astride the edge of the world,

''Through the keen argent edge,

''Beyond the dream!

''In the lighted darkness,

''The sunny twilight,

''Beneath her captivation,

''I died tonight,

''Pierced the veil,

''Spilt the azure immortal,

''Rose a scarlet star above the lie's dawn,

''Dared to draw,

''To vanquish the foe ill,

''For to die is to live,

''Upon azygos escape beyond peer.

''Dared to betray,

''Conspire against traitor,

''I visited land of fleet,

''Visage of life I captured,

''Of marriage of body and mind,

''Of life without peril,

''Of night of constancy,

And so I woke to imagined dawn.