Songs

Auszug Marching Song

by Carl Rohweder
featured in Streets of Ruin (PERI 5-02)
sung to the music of Men of Harlech:

Perrenland heroes march to glory, Victory is hov'ring o'er ye,
Bright eyed freedom stands before ye, Hear ye not her call?
At your sloth she seems to wonder, Rend the sluggish bonds asunder,
Let the war cry's deaf'ning thunder, Ev'ry foe appal.

Echoes loudly waking, Hill and valley shaking;
'Till the sound spreads wide around, the Old One's armies breaking;
Your foes on ev'ry side assailing, Forward press with heart unfailing,
Till the Witch-Queen learns with quailing, Perrenland ne'er can yield.

Thou who noble Perrenland wrongest, Know that freedom's cause is strongest
Freedom's courage lasts the longest, Ending but with death!
Freedom countless hosts can scatter, Freedom stoutest mail can shatter,
Freedom thickest walls can batter, Fate is in her breath.

See they now are flying! Dead are heaped with dying!
Over might has triumphed right, Our land to foes denying;
Upon their soil we never sought them, Love of conquest hither brought them,
But this lesson we have taught them, Perrenland ne'er can yield.