Serentiy’s Sorrow

Beneath the eldest sun-sprent shades
of the far-off Emerald Forest deep,
amid those hallow’d, ancient glades,
a band of Woodnymphs keep.
When eternal youth and beauty fail
to bind a heart immortal rent,
thus begins the hapless tale:
A Dryad’s dark descent.

Copyright © 2002-2017 by Dustin Jon Scott
[Last Update: December^rd, 2017]

This is the version that appears in The Book of the Elvenwar.

Elvenwar §αI¶I. Kri darana, laono mbu-ŋi-vyasa titsu-rutali da manino, ta raodilineu raudi-vilipinou da mbulini Źadi-Vilapino patu vailalini ridalini Fainipano da Valadomiwo raone-vyasiŋu ŋavyasilini da-Fainino da ainilini jinapina, raone aone mpi kyi kwisinio Vili-Nimbinau, rini dikanome, da kwinau nomilio raone Taorano, Faenano, Mitsano, Raodano, Simikano, Aameno, Valino, Muolano, Taŋino, Mualeno, Kihino, Tsokiuhano, unta Samino. Vuya samolini diyanio raone ridike sukilini manilau mipu viliniu da deranoo, raone aite kilau pi radiŋano da raedaliŋi-radivilinou, lyalda raone kilau viþe pa raudi-vikwiþinio mi viulilini vialinou. Ŋio la tsikori ma kinau boraoneu midalo kilauda nikilini buhuminau, lyalda ŋio lini tsikori raone kinu kilau ŋisamugino. Tatsi, niutilini diyanili, Samigalo raone eona ŋisaominoovi.

Translation: Back in the day, being very much unseen beyond the bowers of Man, amid the lustrous untamed wylds of the great Emerald Forest outlying the crosshatched foreign Fairlands of Elphame that veiled the unseen realm of Fairy from this ephemeral middle-earth, throve in those ethereal mysts a band of Sylvan Nymphs, numbering but ten^[1], whose names were Destiny, Faith, Charity, Glory, Harmony, Trust, Divinity, Grace, Eternity, Solace, Felicity, Ecstasy, and Serenity. All throughout their lenitive days gamboled and romped these libidinous maids through the greenest of holts, napped they by cover of shade-dappled glades, and made they love by hot kells in lush glens. Never was among them the faintest thought of worry or concern to burthen their frolicsome hearts, and never had they known true sorrow. Until, very late one morrow, poor Serenity was grown forlorn.

Elvenwar §αI¶I. Daranakri, vyasaŋimbulaono maninoda-rutalititsu raodilineu-raudivilipinouta Źadivilapumbinoda vailalini-ridalini-Fainipanopatu vyasiŋuraone-Valadomiwoda vyasiŋalini-Faininoda ainilini-jinapipada, aoneraonekwisiniokkimpi Vili-Nimbinauda, dikanomerini, neraonenamiwaa-nomilio kwikinauda Taorano, Faenano, Mitsano, Raodano, Simikano, Aameno, Valino, Muolano, Taŋino, Mualeno, Kihino, Tsokiuhano, Saminonta. Samolini-diyaniovuya ridikeraone-sukilini-manilau viliniuderanoodamipu, aiteraonekilau radiŋanoda-raedaliniradivilinoupi, viþeraonekilau raudivikwiþiniopa viulilinivialinoumi. Ŋiotsikorila kinauma boraoneumidalo kilauda-nikilinibuhuminau, lyalda ŋiotsikorilini-kinuraonekilau ŋisamugino. Tatsi, niutilinidiyanili, eonaraone-Samigalo ŋisaominoovi.

Translation: Back in the day, hidden deeply away beyond the bowers of Man amid the lustrous untamed wylds of the great Emerald Forest outlying the crosshatched foreign Fairlands of Elphame that veiled the unseen realm of Fairy from this ephemeral middle-earth, throve in those ethereal mysts a band of Sylvan Nymphs, numbering but ten^[1], whose names were Destiny, Faith, Charity, Glory, Harmony, Trust, Divinity, Grace, Eternity, Solace, Felicity, Ecstasy, and Serenity. All throughout their lenitive days gamboled and romped these libidinous maids through the greenest of holts, napped they by cover of shade-dappled glades, and made they love by hot kells in lush glens. Never was among them the faintest thought of worry or concern to burthen their frolicsome hearts, and never had they known true sorrow. Until, very late one morrow, poor Serenity was grown forlorn.