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Enjoy this reading of the poem Kender Mourning Song by Michael Williams. This poem first appeared in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987.

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Kender Mourning Song

Always before, the spring returned.The bright world in its cycle spunIn air and flowers, grass and fern,Assured and cradled by the sun.

Always before, you could explainThe turning darkness of the earth,And how that dark embraced the rain,And gave the ferns and flowers birth.

Already I forget those things,And how a vein of gold survivesThe mining of a thousand springs,The seasons of a thousand lives.

Now winter is my memory,Now autumn, now the summer light—So every spring from now will beAnother season into night.