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Brother Seed
Alasdair Roberts
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Well, it's whispered in the crypt
The greenwood waxes early
Omens go from lip to lip
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
It's murmured in the chambered cairn
The greenwood waxes early
My only daughter goes wi' bairn
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
And she a youngling in her bud
The greenwood waxes early
She's layin' with one too near in blood
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
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Oh, mother, mother, read my wyrd
The greenwood waxes early
Read it keen and read it clear
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
Oh, daughter, daughter, I'll read your wyrd
The greenwood waxes early
I'll read it keen, I'll read it clear
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
With belly full of brother seed
The greenwood waxes early
You'll have no friend in word or deed
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
And a winnowing fan upon the land
The greenwood waxes early
Is an oar upon the roarin' brine
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
Such sooth as this will see you through
The greenwood waxes early
Upon your long and slow decline
Where the deer go runnin' yearly, oh
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And all because our mortal span in middle realm
Is endless and fleeting
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With lowborn sorts and skyborne hosts
And bygone ghosts for our souls competing
You'll be clad in widow's weed
And draped in trailing naval cord and a hordled oh
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To wander evermore among the smears
Along the margins of the world, oh
And though I wish no ruin on you, child
Still I know a ruin must come, oh
But I would have that ruin come with haste
Enough to make you blind and dumb, oh
No more to murmur omen
No more mouthed our abracadabra
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To see your mother ill, surrender soul
And leave an intact cadaver
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And a firedrake to rise in the skies
When I'm laid in cold earth, oh
And a mandrake to cry on the vile hour
Of the unwed's birth, oh
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