Defending the Realm Lyrics

Northern European woodcut,Wandering on a moonlit night,One who, having once,Looked round, walks on,And then turns no more his head,Because he knows, a frightful fiend,Doth close be...Read Full Lyrics

Stretch forth! Stretch forth! From the south to the north,From the east to the west, stretch forth! stretch forth!Stregnthen thy stakes, and lengthen thy cords,The world is a tent ...Read Full Lyrics

The solitary one waits for grace,For mercy divine,For he of troubled thought must travel through the seaway,Stir with his hands the frosty-cold sea and travel paths of exile.Unhing...Read Full Lyrics

Bereft of friends, awakens he,Dark waves before him,Frost and snow,Mingled with hail fall,His wounded heart is heavier,Painful for the beloved,Sorrow is renewed.Spirits of the seaf...Read Full Lyrics

Learned we in former-days,Of glory-blessed heroes,The thegns of the Lord,Their force did not fail,In the war,When banners clashed together.Illustrious men upon the earth,Bold folk-...Read Full Lyrics

Shattered by Fate! The castles rend asunder,The work of giants moldereth away,Its towers crumble,Aquae Sulis, in ruin,The mortar white with frost.The mighty men who built it, they ...Read Full Lyrics

Then did they of proud spirit split the shield-wall,Men of King Aethelstan, men of honour.Battle shields were hewn with the remnants of hammers.Befitting their noble descent,That t...Read Full Lyrics

Then he who thought wisely of,Deeply contemplates this dark life,Wise in mind, remembers he, the battles of old;Time has departed,Grown dark under cover of night,As if it were neve...Read Full Lyrics

Still is a valley Surrounded by a forest of OaksBespiring deeplyWith the breath of our ancestorsA knot of roots Hold steadfast the earthBonds that link a nation, Foregoing generati...Read Full Lyrics

This at least behoves every man,That he his soul's course should heed,How awful it will beWhen death arrives,The kinship sunders,Those that were together,Body and soul.Departed fro...Read Full Lyrics