The March of the Warsong
Everyone who's a World of Warcraft player knows that the Warsong are famous for...their war songs. Strangely enough, not even a single example of this is present in ANY part of the Lore.
This effort here is an attempt to rectify that somewhat. It is a World of Warcraft rendering of the poem "War song of the Saracens" by James Elroy Flecker, the British poet.
The credit for the original poem go directly to Mr. Flecker, I merely modified it a little to suit the Warcraft lore. Also, I do not own Warcraft, the Warsong Clan or any other production thereof - they are the sole property of Blizzard.
(In the Background, random Blizzard employee says - You mad, bro?)
Around a campfire in an encampment, sometime during the Second War
To me, brothers - join me in my chant. Let those humans over the horizon hear us, and know true fear!
We are they, who come faster than death!
We are they who ride to victory or death!
We storm at the enemy's gate's unflinching,
Foolish mortals of this world, beware!
Not on silk or satin we lie,
Not in curtained solemnity die,
Among women who shatter and cry,
And weak children who mumble their paeans.
We sleep by the ropes of our camps,
And we rise with shouts and snarls,
With the Sun and the Moon for lamps,
And the spray of the wind in our hair.
From the lands where the Elekks roam,
To the forts of Grim Batol and Blackrock,
Our steel we have brought to bear,
And our fury to blight the land!
We march to Azeroth from Draenor,
And by the spirits, we shall do so and more!
We have stood on the plains of Arathi,
Where the peaks of Destiny rise.
A swath of desolation we made Stormwind,
Where the enemy quailed before our might.
For death is a difficult trade,
And the Axe is a broker of doom.
Our spears are the physicians of fate,
Who cure ambition and sate.
Our blood shall burn till the end,
Until our enemies lie in the dust!
As black as Doomhammer wrath our rage,
As bright as the blazing fire our resolve,
The cowards shall burn,
The heroes will triumph,
And all shall fear the wrath of the Horde!
FOR THE HORDE!