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22. First appeared as "Song of the Nine Heroes": CHRONICLES, II, pp. 5-
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One from a garden of stone arising, 10
From dwarf-halls, from weather and wisdom,
Where the heart and the mind ride unquestioned
In the untapped vein of the hand.
In his fathering arms, the spirit gathered.
NINE THEY WERE, UNDER THE THREE MOONS, 15
UNDER THE AUTUMN TWILIGHT:
AS THE WORLD DECLINED, THEY AROSE
INTO THE HEART OF THE STORY.
One from a haven of breezes descending,
Light in the handling air, 20
To the waving meadows, the kender's country,
Where the grain out of smallness arises itself
To grow green and golden and green again.
NINE THEY WERE, UNDER THE THREE MOONS,
UNDER THE AUTUMN TWILIGHT: 25
AS THE WORLD DECLINED, THEY AROSE
INTO THE HEART OF THE STORY.
The next from the plains, the long land's keeping,
Nurtured in distance, horizons of nothing.
Bearing a staff she came, and a burden 30
Of mercy and light converged in her hand:
Bearing the wounds of the world, she came.
NINE THEY WERE, UNDER THE THREE MOONS,
UNDER THE AUTUMN TWILIGHT:
AS THE WORLD DECLINED, THEY AROSE 35
INTO THE HEART OF THE STORY.
The next from the plains, in the moon's shadow,
Through custom, through ritual, trailing the moon
Where her phases, her wax and her wane, controlled
The tide of his blood, and his warrior's hand 40
Ascended through hierarchies of space into light
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