Favorite song/poem

[Eulaliaaa!]

No, you don't have to stick with just Brian Jacques' s poems. I do because I'm not too into poetry and all that stuff that's not by Brian Jacques.

[Wot, wot!]

  This one made me laugh...

"Of all the creatures in the land,
The sea or in the air,
Not one of 'me is half so grand,
Or noble as a hare.
A hare can jump, a hare can run
He don't live down a hole,
In fact a hare's a lot more fun
Than almost any mole.
A hare's courageous and so brave,
Good-mannered and quite courtly,
Sometimes he's serious and grave,
But never fat, just portly.
He never puts a foot paw wrong,
His disposition's sunny,
With ears so elegant and long,
Not stubby like a bunny.
So sing his praises everywhere,
This creature bold, with charm to spare,
The one thing that's better than a hare,
Is two hares, that's a pair!"
(Clecky, Pearls of Lutra)

[Skyblade]

That reminds me of a song from Triss that I have always liked! It's very clever.


"Oh 'tis marvellous what an education does for a chap,
His eyes light up when he puts on the old thinkin' cap,
His brain begins to whirr an' click,
Ideas pour in fast an' thick,
'Cos that's what an education's for!

If it takes one mole to dig a hole,
Ten seasons and a bit,
How many moles could dig that hole,
If they were fat an' fit?
Then if two squirrels helped them,
As deep as they could reach,
If those two squirrels made a pair,
The answer is a peach!

That's what an education does for a chap,
It leaves the blinkin' duffers in a bit of a flap,
For learnin' facts you may depend,
One spouts out answers without end,
So hearten now an' and I'll astound you more!

If two sparrows had six arrows,
And set out to shoot a duck,
Just how long would it take them,
Before they had some luck?
The answer's jolly simple,
As clever types will know,
To bag that duck they had no luck,
Because they had no bow!

'Cos that's what an education does for a chap,
When learnin' dawns upon him like a big thunderclap,
As they hear his knowledge flow,
The clods will cheer and shout what ho,
Now that's what an education's for!

If I had two an' you had two,
And she had two as well,
If they had two, just like we two,
The truth to you I'll tell,
If one knew far too little
Those facts would be too few,
But if one had education,
One would find the answers, too!"


It just bothers me that I don't understand the first riddle (the one that says the answer is a peach). Does anyone know or at least have an idea??

[Mhera]

If those two squirrels made a pear,
The answer is a peach!

That help?

Also, "peach" may be an adjective here describing the answer (which would mean we actually weren't given the solution at all).

[Skyblade]

Ok, I understand that pair is a pun for pear. Right? But how does a peach answer the question of how many moles it would take to dig a hole?

EDIT: Never mind

[Mhera]

See my edit^

[Skyblade]

A bit too late, lol. Thanks though, Mhera!!

[Lady Cregga]

I like this:

'Who are we but strolling players,
Wand'ring through the long ago?
Hopes and sadness, joys and longings, keep us going onwards though
The laughter and applause of others
Who view the passing cavalcade
Leaves echoes hovering some far summer,
Rounf a shaded woodland glade
T'was but a tale for your amusement
Like my small unworthy rhyme,
Gone, alas, into those realms
The land of once upon a time.'

From Marlfox, this is from memory so I might have gotten a few words wrong.

[Hickory]

I don't know the lines, but the lullabye Doogy sang to Tam. 

[Skyblade]

"Wisdom comes with age I know, for life has taught me thus,
those early wild and clouded rivers,
now flow calm and clear to us.
Tolerance replaces haste, rage gives way to reason,
our young ones grow, to learn and know,
as Season follows Season.
Lessons of truth and honesty,
from creatures, far more bold than me.
I tried my best, and played my part,
to be amongst the brave of heart.
Mayhaps I failed, though now it seems,
that I've become the Teller of Tales,
the scribe, and the Weaver of Dreams."

- Umfry Spikkle


Redwall poems are amazing

[Lily]

I think I already mentioned this on this forum somewhere over the years, but this one from Mariel of Redwall has always been one of my favourites:

The wind's icy breath o'er the land of death
Tells a tale of the yet to come.
'Cross the heaving waves which mark ships' graves
Lies an island known to some,
Where seas pound loud and rocks stand proud
And blood flows free as water,
To the far northwest, which knows no rest,
Came a father and his daughter.
The mind was numb, and the heart struck dumb,
When the night seas took the child,
Hurled to her fate, by a son of Hellgate,
The dark one called The Wild.
You who they seek, though you do not speak,
The legend is yet to be born;
One day you will sing over stones that are red,
In the misty summer dawn.

I can still recite it by heart and I first memorised it about... *does calculations* ...20 years ago. Oh. Wow.

[Hickory]

"Wisdom comes with age I know, for life has taught me thus,
those early wild and clouded rivers,
now flow calm and clear to us.
Tolerance replaces haste, rage gives way to reason,
our young ones grow, to learn and know,
as Season follows Season.
Lessons of truth and honesty,
from creatures, far more bold than me.
I tried my best, and played my part,
to be amongst the brave of heart.
Mayhaps I failed, though now it seems,
that I've become the Teller of Tales,
the scribe, and the Weaver of Dreams."

- Umfry Spikkle


Redwall poems are amazing

I think Loamhedge and a few other books had a prolouge with those lines, "the Teller of Tales and the Weaver of Dreams"

[Banya]

This one from Lord Brocktree:

"Smearing a flat rock with vegetable oil, the Badger Lord began to put an edge to either side of the broad blade.  Never having been a singer, he recited the ancient lines of a badger's swordsong as he worked.

"My blade like winter's cold doth bite,
Come guide me, Badger Lord,
For truth and justice we must fight,
Wield me, your Battle Sword!
Defend the weak, protect the meek,
Take thy good comrades' part,
My point like lightning, send to seek
The foebeast's evil heart!
Eulalia loud like thunder cry,
Be thou mine eyes and brain,
We join in honour, thee and I,
To strike in war again!"

[Tavelin the Badgermaid]

Maybe this question doesn't fit here, maybe this forum has been abandoned (I honestly don't know) , but I need to ask a question.
Does anyone remember a song that was sung for an otters death? (and you're thinking, ''do you know how many songs that would be?'')
I know, there are a lot of songs for otters. But this one was about a dove and storm, and... it was sung by a female otter and it for a chieftain's teenage son, and... *tries to remember more* *fails expertly*
Does anyone here know what I'm talking about or is this just all gibberish?
Thanks!

[Jukka the Sling]

That would be the song sung in The Rogue Crew by Lancejack Sage at Swiffo's funeral:

"When sunlight wanes and evening shadows fall,
old weary earth in dusky silence lies,
a small lost dove doth mournful call,
its lone lament to darkling skies.

Hark to its cry, poor little thing,
it rests with head beneath one wing,
and breeze that wends through woodland fair,
passes it by with ne'er a care.

Throughout the night in trembling fear and dread,
until the welcome light of gentle morn,
the little dove lifts up its downy head,
and soars into the heav'nly dawn."