The Lay of Merialeth Book 2: The Black Shores of Kisiyuka

The Black Molten Isle

Book 1 of the Lay of Merialeth

Book 2: The Black Shores of Kisiyuka

I

Doleful wert the days,

That passed them by

They whom applied Shalvar’s ways,

And who didst ply

Their trade and ways

By the sea, and ne’er didst lie,

Save in measly manner, and turn’d their gazes,

From sea to caverns far below the sky,

Such their greatness in past ages

When they ruled Ifriquya and…