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Walls surround me as the years pass slowly by |
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Wonder I might have been |
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Battle-slaughter and a kingdom overthrown |
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Are only shadowy tales for me |
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My kingly blood, it has condemned me to this fate |
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I'll never see the light of day again |
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How I long to have fought with my brothers side by side |
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Only death shall end my pain |
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While kings and men are slain |
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As royal buildings rise and fall |
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These walls shall be my home |
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I'll be forever in chains |
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Darkness fills me but my dignity prevails |
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Prison walls are all I know |
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History unfolds as I am left behind |
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Trapped within a web of time |
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The nobility of his forebears, his simple manners |
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His sound views and honourable judgements |
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The strength of his body and the fire of his intellect |
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All these glorify the Earl Wulfnoth |
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Exile, prison, darkness, inclosure, chains |
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Receive the boy and forsake the old man |
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Caught up in human bonds he bore them patiently |
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Bound even more closely in service to God |
