Canto II
The bright sapphire
of the morning sky
Spreads out endless
above the grassy plain.
The Mushroom Kingdom
doth in silence lie
A land forlorn and
choked with quiet pain.
The Brothers noble
look about with awe
At this new place
they never glimpsed before.
Fear grips them for
a moment but then-Ah!
They set out on
their dangerous task once more.
Not long they go
before they are attacked
By living mushrooms
charging them with hate
And with white fangs
as sharp as broadswords act
Our heroes lives to quick exterminate.
Goombas they were,
and heartless traitors all
Who willingly gave
up their allegiance.
To him most foul
they each became a thrall
And placed themselves
at his Empire's defense.
With defiance the
two brothers leap up
The sun's gold
rays bright shining in their boots.
See muscled strength
that no Goomba can stop.
Each traitor
flattened into the earth's roots.
Still more do come
and still the fight goes on.
Each shroom the
victim of their righteous rage
They battle fierce
until the day is won
And do not pause but
fly to the next stage.
High cliffs they see
like the pillars which hold
The sheet of sky
aloft above the world
And 'neath, the
ocean, blue and wide and old
Into which golden
riches had been hurled.
"My brother,"
says Weegie, "we must now part,"
For this new realm
is large and daunting wide
So yours shall be
the ocean and my part
Shall be to scale each sheer and sharp
cliff side.
The two embrace and
say a grieved farewell
Knowing that they
might never meet again
On this low earth
where we small mortals dwell
And so they on their fateful paths
begin.