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The Vale of Serenity

Friday, January 27, 2006

To the tune of "The Foggy Dew." Only about another lost cause.

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Original lyrics

From one doomed struggle to another...(Easter Rebellion, 1916, in Ireland)

Oh in a vale once named for peace

once, back in better days

I saw the transports give out troops

I heard the soldiers say

we must hold this vale, and we dare not fail

for it is Hera's key

And the Greycoats' threat with full force they met

In the vale of Serenity

On Hera then we made our stand

we came from near and far

our hearts were light for our cause was right

Though long and hard the war

We all spurned life 'neath Alliance rule

'twas better to die free

But Alliance skiffs drove us to the cliffs

In the Vale of Serenity

Our hope was bleak in the seventh week

Our gen'rals had been felled

Yet whene'er they came, we sent them back

And to the end we held

and amongst our dead, this the oath we said

Independent to always be

and though they beat us down still we stood our ground

In the vale of Serenity

Sihnon and Londinium

Said the system should be one

But some of us thought differently

and went to get our guns

So battle rang all through Du-Khang

and in Sturges' wracked debris

And forever sleep those who'd freedom keep

in the vale of Serenity

Then the orders came to give up the game

We were to lay down arms

For the war was done, the Alliance won

But we were not safe from harm

for we'd been betrayed and two weeks we lay

While the generals agreed

in droves we died just to salve their pride

In the vale of Serenity

Back to the vale I never did go

But it ne'er shall leave me more

For the old me burned never to return

In the fires of the war

And to God I'd pray for their souls each day

If He was there to see

But no God could do what He put us through

In the Vale of Serenity

Comments
Friday, 27 January 2006 12:22
Great piece, it really illustrates the lost cause.

ANONYMOUS
Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:17
In this universe, I'd like to see some one representing the Alliance say the equivalent:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations"

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