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This story is a fragment from a larger tale, but was partly inspired by legends of mortals stumbling into enchanted lands and suffering heartbreak when they are inevitably banished. The regret either eats away at them from inside, or is transmuted, as the years fall away, into acceptance, humility, and compassion.

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With winter comes the wanderer,
and kindness follows in his wake.
His wounded heart can never heal,
but through it light will break.

It was a cousin of the king
who to the court a bride did bring.
His own wife journeyed by his side,
when brigands assailed the company
and all but those two died.

With winter comes the wanderer,
and kindness follows in his wake.

The snow came fierce enough to kill,
and they sought shelter neath the hill,
but still must die, did not the wife,
her mother’s bracelet on her wrist,
cry out “I bear an amethyst!”
And the hill opened wide.

With winter comes the wanderer,
and kindness follows in his wake.
His wounded heart can never heal,
but through it light will break.

They sheltered long beneath the hill,
but soon his pride and stubborn will
set him at odds with his kind hosts.
He raged at them and struck his wife,
and woke to stony solitude,
and banishment for life.

With winter comes the wanderer,
in snow and ice, in freezing mist.

Of warmth, of love, of red-gold light,
of that fair haven hid from sight,
the memory branded on his heart,
through all his long and lonely days,
must burn therein always.

And so he wanders, mourning still
his sundered wife beyond the hill,
and to amend his arrogance,
leaves hidden gifts, as if by chance,
or Yuletide’s wishes fill.

With winter comes the wanderer,
in snow and ice, in freezing mist,
seeking in vain the hidden realm
unlocked by a pale amethyst.
Though kindness follows in his wake,
each day he curses his mistake,
but from his wounded heart,
the red-gold light will ever break.

credits

from Winter Legends, Christmas Bells, released December 19, 2020
Words and music: Ben Heneghan

Ellie Martin: Soprano
Llandaff Cathedral Choral
Penarth Cavatina Singers
Cheltenham Choral Society
Directed by: Alex Thacker

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