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Enjoy this reading of the poem Hymn to Earth, part of the Five hymns series by Quivaylan Soth, the Bard of Ansalon. This poem first appeared in The History of Dragonlance: Being the Notes, Journals, and Memorabilia of Krynn, released on June 1st, 1995.

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Five Hymns: Hymn to Earth

Of rock and earth, of magma and cold shaleBuild our belief. The hammer of the godA truth forged in the absence of starlight.And here amid the sediment of yearsIn darkness covering darkness, where the eyeMines for the ore of mystery, the earthLies rich with promise and the fire of days.

Thorbardin and Thoradin, half an ageHas covered you, and half a dozen wars.Here, in a thousand seasons,Breath transforms to rock, to immaculate crystal,Bone to onyx, the blood's loud current stilledIn the white stalactite. Here all things lie downIn darkness, and a vein of ore recallsThe lost light of our dreaming days.And this is what we dream, what we remember:In the black husks of carbon, we awake,Devolving centuries, transforming fire,The blue millennial diamond in our hearts.

So insubstantial are the bonds of earthThat stone is breath and pyrite is desire,The light of gemstones is a rain of stars,And what is gracious, what is misconstruedAs old illusion in the hooded nightIs the true vein that binds the bone to breathing,Binds stone to the gods' air, and in the veinThe gold, glimpsed like a prophecy of light.