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To the Wise Woman

from Merlin, Child of the Merrymoon by Leafblade

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And so comes May, the month of Merrymoon. Merlin’s mother, a priestess in her own right, and a half-blood fae, has given birth to the child Merlin. The identity of the child’s father is shrouded in mystery, rumoured to be either another half-blood fae or an invocation of one of Merlin’s mother’s spells: an emanation of the woodland god himself.

Limited by the constraints of a nobility and social system compromised by the arrival of a child whose father is nowhere in evidence, Merlin’s mother, distraught yet resigned to fate, is forced to yield the child to a chosen stepmother for his upbringing. Guided by the counsel of the spirits of the Middle Kingdoms, she finds a local ‘wise woman’, herself a visionary, closely tied to the fae and richly versed in the ways of true magic…

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The child sired,
The fae song but a memory,
By night galloped
The mother and the babe
To a nearby village,
Aways from her castle,
To a woman chosen
By her friends of the glade…

“You must take the child, wise woman,” she cried,
“My purity given for my infant mild!”

“Fret you no more, my lady of the fae –
I’ve dreamt of this child, his one true way.

Old I may be,
And for this I have waited,
For much love I see
When others see hatred;

Long in the tooth,
But wise to the ways
That bring the moon
To darkened days!”

The tearful mother,
After long weeping minutes,
Then left for the night,
Consumed with such sadness,
The castle of her birth,
Her ancestors’ cairn,
Her place of the fae,
And of Merlin’s birth…

The old woman in her arms
Took the sleeping babe,
And saw the lights that winked about him,
The solace he betrayed.

“You’re a right one of the horns,” she said,
“The very spirit of May,
And long have I waited, my little blossom,
So long before this day.”

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from Merlin, Child of the Merrymoon, released September 2, 2022

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Leafblade UK

Sean Jude - Vocals, Guitar
Kevin Murphy - Bass
Thomas Legg - Drums, Percussion, Keys

Liverpool (UK) based prog rock trio.

A rich blending of powerful evocations through progressive and Celtic metal, gripping rock anthems and hauntingly acoustic refrains, rich with storytelling imagery, myth and sacred geometry. ... more

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