Prayer of Lament

The work of an unknown author in Sky’Soverigns. Some say it was written by a priest there in celebration of a treaty with Trivin. Others say it predates the founding of the modern Trivin Empire, instead of being written by an Ilmateri knight lamenting the fractious civil strife that fell over the country at the fall of Arcadia.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

All pray in their distress;

And to these virtues of delight

Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

Is God, Ilmater dear,

And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity a human face,

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,

That prays in his distress,

Prays to the human form divine,

Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,

In friend, in foe, in you;

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell

There Ilmater dwells too.

Type

Text, Religious