Re: Who wants to play a Conlang Gloss Game?

--- Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:58:39PM +0100, Peter
> Bleackley wrote:
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>
> > Who's up for it?
>
> I am if you'll have my doggerel, which here follows:
>
> Until the stars should fall beneath the waves,
> Until the moon should tarnish in her skies,
> Until the earth adopt a different guise,
> Until the sun should fade and cease to shine -
>
> This long will I search out your tender gaze,
> This long will I engage your delicate ear
> with praises of the luster of your hair,
> This long will I endure till you be mine.
>
> April 6, 2004
> Amanda
Sounds like fun.  If that nice bit of peotry is too
upbeat for the tone of the text to be glossed, here's
a little something a bit darker off the top of my
head:

On a circle of sand in a circle of stone
with a sword and a sceptre of silver and bone
He draws a line and he casts a rune
He wails and he moans in a mournful tune
'neath a sky of blood, 'neath a cloud so black
shot through and through by a fiery track
he raises his staff to the lightning's spark
to greet the devils and demons of dark

--gary

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