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Arriving here

Through open gate

You bring your worst

Blight our fate

Do debauchery

And slit, slice, rejoice

Wreck our homes

And peaceful lives

Plunder, pillage:

Evil done

Angel taut to us brought

Burns our house, rains her curse

They leak their war

Through our door

They like to break

Bodies rape and children take

Make me a whore?

Human no more?

Draw up the barriers

Arm the wards

Summon hidden lake-bound swords:

Floating wisps to deceive

Your doings here ‘mongst the meek

Must make you grieve

Smash the gate in your face

Force you out

And force you dead

Plead our plight to the land

Break the malice brought by men

Demon lamps

Lead them grim

Show them now:

No need for him

Be our sword

Our newest lord

Wash them in deadened shine

Lights of fire flashing grim

Hide our home

Make our lives less thin

Wisps of death running grim

Help us live our lives alone

Alone

War take you far away

Let war break you

Ere death here brew

This we pray

Man:

Him diminish

Men and men:

Their lives now finish

And ours now stem

Take our houses far from worlds of war and men

From where all is pain

Bring those lights

To flit

To dart

Make life depart

Take us away from the world of war, of them

Away to where all is sane

Us do shelter

Us do save

Dampest earth:

Come us do defend

So we salt the land

Plough the grave

So we arm all swamp

Mask our grave

Do not come back

For we won’t lack

You are no men

Our door now shut

The forest is our bower

Hidden well

Therein our power

For here

Witches dwell