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The Bravery of the Doomed
A poem found in its entirety in Book 3 but quoted throughout the cycle. It is first told by an unnamed person later revealed to be Bendloyer Felkin.
It concerns the heroics performed by those whose doom is imminent, and exalts their condition as being one of Vigorous Aliveness:
Even though we walk in shade, we darest feel no fear,
For though we're damned and walk alone, we'll give them not a tear.
Though swords will cleave and hammers pound, and maces crush and rend,
Each stroke of pain will drive us on, until that dismal end
That lingers on at end of days, the fate we find alone
So praise the high and pass the bolt, we'll fight them to the bone
For though we're damned and have no hope, we fight much stronger still;
Those bastards, they'll regret the day they fought us to the till.
-- an unidentified bard, Book 3
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