Excerpt from Songs of Good Fighting

We are they that seek the Clew, riding for the Name,
Past the wayward winds that blew, past the lures of Fame,
Men fail and the words of men, shall deeds of men fail, too?
A rouse for the Endless Errantry, we that seek the Clew!

For the Name thrice-murmured in our ears
Is a spur ye never knew,
Who listed laggard through the Years,
Nor sought to gain the Distant View.

Leave Love and the Lover - 'tis ours to discover.
Though Death be the portion of this our Long Quest,
So in with the rowel, out with the avowal,
The Oath of the men who know riding is best.

Though the Clew, mayhappen, long ago
Was passed in the Vale of Youth,
Yet yonder hill, for all ye know,
May bear a sign of the Utter Truth.

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