Here’s some inspired Poetry for your Winter Veil holiday!
Stormwind’s Bells
Adapted from Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Winter Veil Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Light’s Chapels
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!
Till, ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the North,
And with the sound
The Carols drowned
Of peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!
And in despair I bowed my head;
‘There is no peace on Azeroth,’ I said;
‘For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!’
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
‘The Light is not dead; nor doth it sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on Azeroth, good-will to all!’
Let us not forget or Horde brothers and sisters
It Came From Within Orgrimmar Clear
Adapted from It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Edmund Sears
It Came from within Orgrimmar clear,
That glorious song of old,
From ancestors bending near the earth,
To touch their helms of gold:
“Peace on the azeroth, goodwill to all,
From the Warchiefs past.”
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the ancestor’s sing.
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their peaceful music floats
O’er all the weary world;
Above Mulgore and it’s plains,
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o’er its Thunderbluff sounds,
The glorious ancestors sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the ancestor-strain have rolled
Too many years of wrong;
And Orc, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the ancestors sing.
And ye, beneath life’s crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the ancestors sing!
For lo!, the days are hastening on,
By all the Shamans foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold
When peace shall over all of Azeroth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the ancestors sing.
Happy holidays to all of Azeroth from your friendly neighborhood Shaman!
