Smoke and Fire

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Sometimes

Even bitter winter and its cowl

Cannot overcome this howl

For better the owl

And it's silent wings fall

Than the wolf to gain it all


For the cold is coming

That is all

Warring forefront

Bareface and crawl

Allow the wreckage of war

To stain the hands of children


For darkness rises in the south

Not a single mouth can stall

The cloud of smoke and fire

It approaches


No forefather, no chancellor, no word

Will halt a charging bear

Death is coming

With its icy fang in hand

All will fall

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