Verses for the prayers of Hasanyah the Queen, to be sung at the Midnight Song: II. For the Afterfeast of Orusen

Four verses.

Let us sing the hymns of Starlight,

Let us sing the songs of water.

Starlight and the world’s first waters

Orusena, first of fathers,

From the Serpent’s deadly malice

Guarded with his brazen weapon.

Now the kin of Orusena,

All the Children of the Water,

Now we keep the Midnight Vigil

So the malice of the Serpent

Will not take its root within us.

Let us sing a hymn of Midnight.

Once we wandered in the Southlands

Until Mighty Orusena,

First of fathers, northward led us,

Led us to the World’s First Waters.

There upon the Holy Hilltop

Nakeinela set his favor.

Let us sing a song at Midnight—

Let us sing of ancient waters

Which, if Heaven hear our singing,

To the Sea which Raos Polestar

Gave to Mighty Lanenomen

Flow and carry Song of Starlight.