Firelands Fair
(Scarborough Fair re-written)
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Are you going to Firelands fair?
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
Remember me to one who reigns there,
For once he was a true love of mine.
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The morning fell to a gathering storm--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
An early dusk they grew to form;
To shadow fell a true love of mine.
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The secondborn prince desired the crown--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
His father's wrath came blazing down:
He'd punish deep a true love of mine.
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Our child we'd lose to an early grave--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
I lost my whole world, his life to save,
And soon they crowned a true love of mine.
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The new Lord banished me from his land--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
And doomed me to wander on alien sand,
Yet once he was a true love of mine.
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An exiled princess in times of war--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
I'll meet my dear ones never more,
Forsaken by a true love of mine.
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Should there come a day when the hatred dies--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
Perhaps I'll gaze on golden eyes:
My son, and oh! that true love of mine...
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Are you going to Firelands fair?--
Let the sun, like our element, shine!--
Remember me to one who reigns there,
For once he was a true love of mine.
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A/N: I like this song, and I thought it kinda fit Urzai, so I wrote my own version of it. I like how it turned out, especially the first (and last) verse. Besides that verse, the only real reference to the original song is the stanza that rhymes "land/sand"--I was thinking of the verse that goes something like "Tell him to find me an acre of land/Between the seafoam and the seastrand," except I misremembered it as "seasand" instead of "seastrand." Oh well, it works.
Sorry I haven't updated anything in a while... I'm so busy now, in college, but I do have plans for this collection (as well as From the Ashes and my Zuko fanfic).