Disclaimer: I don't own the world of Pern.

This is a bit that follows up the two verses of song which Menolly writes during the book Dragonsinger in response to the cry "Don't leave me alone!" that Brekke sends out to Canth and F'nor.

For loved ones departed

to find the mystery

of Thread's threat to us

no mater what rank we be.

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For lasting peace

into danger unknown

with no chance to dissuade them;

all the risks were well known.

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Later would they cry

"We should have foreseen!"

Yet how could they have known

this blaze could have been.

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Tossed and seared

in a billowing fire

Canth and F'nor

felt the planet's ire.

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"They must not come!"

was their only thought

and in black between

they knew naught.

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With the cry of one loved

both far and nigh

all dragons to catch them

rose, filling the sky.

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The battle against Thread

rages strongest for those:

all who for their world

against all odds rose.

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"Don't leave me alone!";

the cry rings throughout Pern

reminding of those heroes

whom other might spurn.