Red Clouds Over Deorinnë

Bright streamers streaking through the night sky
We're roused from our slumber with a loud, urgent cry
We run to our windows and see on the houses
Red roses and daffodils there by the thousands
Bright streamers streaking at the sunrise
The mothers, they hug us, how joyous their eyes
Red flow'rs and black blooms sprouting on the roofs
The fathers charge forward on thundering hooves
No streamers left, just snow on the streets
The mothers they give us their baskets of treats
And off in the distance, where fair Deorinnë lies
Red clouds are dancing amid bright blue skies
No streamers are left as we sweep the snow
When he lands nearby, we say hi to the crow
The fathers return, with joy in their eyes
In the distance, red clouds, up high in the skies.

Red Clouds Over Deorinnë is an unattributed children's rhyme popular in the borderlands of the Dominion, particularly where the empire shares a border with the Silvered Realm.
Despite the apparent innocence in the verses, Red Clouds Over Deorinnë is believed to refer to one of the most tragic moments in Dominion history: the destruction of Cselvë Niral, a modestly sized city in the Dominion borderlands, and the Temple to the Pale God, one of the most sacred sites to the Dominion. It euphemistically refers to the hail of magical fire that was the opening salvo of the elledyn'ni attack on the city as "Bright streamers through the night sky," and the subsequent inferno as "red roses and daffodils, there by the thousands."
Later verses refer to the swift and severe retaliation that the enraged Dominion leveled at the Elledŷnnë. "Red clouds are dancing amid bright blue skies," is in fact a reference to one of the most terrible weapons in the Dominion's arsenal: a blood magic ritual so powerful it can obliterate an entire city's population all at once, reducing them to nothing more than a crimson-red mist.