Scribe's Song

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_Words: Vǫlu-Ingibiǫrg

Music: Dolan Madoc of Harlech
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_Liquid and powder combine to form power

when painted on parchment by pen.
Remember: those fingers on which ink stains linger
have altered the world and its ken._

Socrates, Hippocrates,

poets and thinkers of Greece
their wisdom impart by way of that art
that lets our knowledge increase.

_Liquid and powder combine to form power

when painted on parchment by pen.
Remember: those fingers on which ink stains linger
have altered the world and its ken._

Fierce barons fought, by Charter they sought

to chain a strong king in his pride.
John fixed on his seal, but tried to repeal,
and fighting its power he died.

_Liquid and powder combine to form power

when painted on parchment by pen.
Remember: those fingers on which ink stains linger
have altered the world and its ken._

Do not forget the most vital yet,

or your soul will bear the cost:
the most holy Word left by our Lord,
without which we all would be lost.

_Liquid and powder combine to form power

when painted on parchment by pen.
Remember: those fingers on which ink stains linger
have altered the world and its ken._

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