Aughra's Song
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Of the race of Aughra, I, Aughra, am alone, the first and last. Born from the need for rocks and trees for an eye to see the World. The wind blew and the blind trees sang and roots cracked and I was Aughra. This is my song. The rocks willed me to be their eye; the roots willed me to be their eye. Blind rocks that felt the heartbeat of the World; |
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blind trees swaying in the breathing of the wind made me to view for them all the shapes of the World. Slowly, slowly the roots split the rock and I was free. I was freed from the embrace of rock and root to witness the World, to share with the rocks the majesty of the Three Suns. I saw the Dying Sun and the Rose Sun and the Great Sun circling our World. At the small price of an eye I saw the moment when the Three Suns stood together above the Crystal. The Dying Sun was dark against the pale beauty of the Rose Sun and the whiter brilliance of the Great Sun. |
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I have seen great glory perish, I have seen strength decay and color dim, I have seen freedom lost and wisdom perverted, I have seen the Crystal darken. And at the end of suffering I saw the Crystal healed and the World restored. Now I can return to the embrace of rock and root, for I have seen the light rekindled and the Quest accomplished.
I was born from the need of rocks and trees to have an eye to see the World; I have endured. The changes I have seen, and their pattern and their inner meaning, I have told to the blind trees and the dark rocks, for the shapes of the World are re-formed, the light rekindled.
Of the race of Aughra I was alone,
the first and the last.
Excerpt from THE WORLD OF THE DARK CRYSTAL |
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