Legend 73 - An Ancient Song

Legend 73 - A Song (From Fables & Legends from the Shadow Clan) 
 
 When sunset brings down evening's light 
 On shattered peak and craggy height 
 Where dragons dwell in alpine lair 
 And northern peaks tower cold and bare 
 
 There, windswept, under distant skies 
 A splinter of the Law still cries; 
 A relic of a time before 
 That few remember any more. 
 
 In eastern deserts scorched and lone 
 Strange blasted lands no foot has known 
 With naught but burning sand and stone 
 And wretched death, and sunbleached bone, 
 
 Here too the Law may yet be found, 
 though won on deadly battleground. 
 But Chaos grows now hour by hour 
 And chokes the world with terrible power. 
 
 An island hid since long ago 
 In blinding northern mist and snow 
 Here glint of Law now calls the brave 
 To dare the whirlwind and the wave 
 
 In deep and gloomy forest of yore 
 Where sun scarce reaches any more 
 Here too is Law, though bent and crushed 
 Where rivers ever northward rush. 
 
 How now to forge the lock, the chain 
 To check the evil, wash the stain 
 And so avert catastrophe? 
 From many pieces: Unity.