Bet Nappahi

[Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]

BET NAPPAHI

Sister Amélie of the Sisterhood of the Sibylline Vine
Speaker for Kula

With contributions from the Cinquefoil Rose, including, in order of consultation: Narwen Alendiel, Mathias Thorncrest, Hieronymo Thorncrest, Kyria Menther, Illario Rais, Bruno Rincon, Solina Lyonsen, and Aubrey Domergue.

First Edition
Pub. Tammuz 19, IY 7789.

In the style of the Kulamet.

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What breathless dream may here abound; Through gath'ring fen and shroud around;
The Ages' triumph ling'ring on; A hallowed sight that greets the dawn.

Aghast the silver darkness flees; And copse by moonlight there may freeze;
A moment etched in Dream's array; That mortal mind bids long may stay.

For sundered world that yearns for light; Has cast its pall o'er ruin's spite;
And grasp, O dreamer, distant thought; For lim'nal strength is not for naught.

Now wrest from sight of world divine; And give to all what shall outshine;
What threads of wounded past aggrieve; That verdant hope we shall conceive.

Defying shadow'd anvil's might; The seed that gleaming souls would right;
Is planted now in Well-wrought soil; And shades the worthies' rest from toil;

Through all the futures they have won.