So the vision began
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And a mighty wind shook the roots of the nine worlds.
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The great wolf of the night roused
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And a deep slash cracked open the primordial ice.
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I saw him coming from the north
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The father of all gods Two crows next to him
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Two wolves at his sides
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In the grey cape wrapped I saw him coming,
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With the name of all things in his hand.
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He widened the big eye, this he said: WAR!!
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I know, for nine whole nights you hung down from the tree
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By the mercy of the wind shaken By the spear injured
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To Odin sacrificed, Myself to myself
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On that tree, of unknown roots, grown
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Nor bread nor drinking horn was given
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Towards the ground my look I cast
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The runes I picked up Shouting I took them
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And from up there I fell.
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The eye shut itself And from his hand I fell
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The human error I understood.
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Almost no soul to sustain me
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As if an infernal wind wanted
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To tear it away from me.
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Through the pain I saw and through it I understood
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As too great was the Chaos (at the beginning)
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Now too great was the order.
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The great millstone of the sky
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A new circle was about to be prepared.
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It was time for war
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Next to our fathers we would have fought once again
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In The Raven's Eye
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| Opera Ix |
