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The Unbroken Wall

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Fri, 08/14/2015 - 12:27 -- byram

The earl has called our spears to the wall
(Bright helms and hauberk don again, don again!)
Lift the banner, answer the call
The life of arms to live again, live again!

Charge, charge, charge to the wall!
Let your blades rain down again, down again
Raise our shieldwall, never to fall
Fierce battle's song is sung again, sung again.

The clarion call the armies to war
(We sound the horn, and strike the drum, strike the drum!)
Heroes known in song and in lore
Now make new songs, the hour has come, hour has come.

Charge, charge, charge to the wall!
Let your blades rain down again, down again
Raise our shieldwall, never to fall
Fierce battle's song is sung again, sung again.

As with one will we sunder their wall
(We drive them back, and watch them flee, watch them flee!)
The ranks collapse, their bright banner falls
Our heralds cry out Victory, Victory!

So Charge, charge, charge to the wall!
Let your blades rain down again, down again
Raise our shieldwall, never to fall
Fierce battle's song is sung again, sung again.