White Grows the Lily

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  • Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024
  • A lullaby from an English mother to her son during the 100 years war. The first 4 lines were written for the TV show "Legend of the Seeker" based off of Terry Goodkind's books. One of the characters uses it as a lullaby for a small boy on the show, but its maddeningly incomplete!
    I tried looking online to find out if it was traditional or if any one had further lyrics to it, and found nothing. So......I get to write the rest.
    I took the "rose" and "lily" line as a metaphor for the House of Plantagenet of England and the House of Valois of France in the 100 years war. I wrote the rest of the song to be from the perspective of an English women with a young son dreading his recruitment into the wars between the two houses. It remains in the format of a lullaby, but is sung not so much to comfort her son as it is to comfort herself. Anyways, let me know what you think!
    THE ROSE AND THE LILY
    Lady Asrune Rowan
    White grows the lily, Red grows the rose
    Here lies my laddie, See how he grows
    One day he'll leave me, To cross shadowed sea
    Pray god protect him, keep him safe with me
    The rose shows its wisdoms, from love lost on youth
    Protector of passions and soilder of truth
    For royal resplendence I bow to it's bloom
    But thorns rest beneat it, and there lies his doom
    White grows the lily, Red grows the rose
    Here lies my laddie, See how he grows
    Soon must he leave me, To cross shadowed sea
    Pray god protect him, let him stay free
    The lily knows little, but innocence scorned
    On banner of blood shed for villians adorned
    like pale ghosts in moonlight, I fear for their fate
    to grow on a gravesite, may yet be too late
    White grows the lily, Red grows the rose
    Here lies my laddie, See how he grows
    Now he must leave me, And cross shadowed sea
    Pray god protect him, return him to me
    This garden is weary, its soil is tolled
    For deacades in termoil, its left bled for gold
    My son is a child, but man he'll soon be
    with red rose upon him, he'll die by lily
    White grows the lily, Red grows the rose
    Here lies my laddie, oh how the wind blows!
    Now he has left me, to lie neath green lee
    Pray god protect him, keep him safe for me

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