I. Verses for the Four Odes on Feihothanral, to be used in Ferial Seasons

Eight verses.

Long ago, in timeless ages,

High above the Western Ocean

Feihoth looked upon an Isle,

Green and shining in the Ocean—

Gleaming like a precious emerald

Long ago, in timeless ages.

Once when Feihoth on that Isle

Looked with love, his heart with longing

Filled and wept, for Under Starlight

Many lands were lying empty.

Many lands were lying empty

When Feihoth looked upon that Isle.

Then fair Reinfal, Western Jewel,

Over Western Ocean brooded

Like a dove, and full of longing,

Brightly shone upon that Isle.

Bright the light upon that Isle

Long ago, in timeless ages.

Then a war in ancient Heaven

Sundered Middle-Heaven’s order—

Sundered Heaven’s perfect order—

And the lands were split beneath it:

Chasms rent and isles broken

By the war in ancient Heaven.

Reinfal looked upon her Isle

Fearing warfare would destroy it.

Fanhal stood his guard in Heaven,

In the Western skies above us.

Fanhal did not answer Raos,

Did not heed his battle-summons.

Then the Stars of Middle-Heaven,

Long ago in ancient ages,

Said unto the mighty champion

Raos, Polestar, strong in battle:

“Feihoth came not at your summons,

Did not aid us in that hour.”

“Feihoth stood aloof from conflict,

So you say, and say it truly;

Not for any love of Vishnarr

Did he refuse the call to battle,

But he feared the scars of warfare,

Rack and ruin of western Isle.”

So unto the Isle of Longing

Raos sent the western Star-host:

Fanhal, Reinfal, bright Ramosa,

All the fathers of the Treians.

Heaven moved by deepest longing

Long ago, in timeless ages.