Alias the Bard.
Cougar had a valiant heart, a dwarf both bold and proud,
The mighty Twoblades was his clan, a cousin to the king,
But now his soul is far away, his body `neath a shroud,
And weeping is the woman who wears the dead dwarf's ring.
Chorus:
"I should have held him in my arms
And never let him go!
With all my being I wanted him;
Now I am filled with woe.
I should have kept him by my side
And so preserved his life,
But he said, `No bodyguard
Should ever take a wife.'"
She loved him for his silent strength, she loved his stalwart heart;
She loved the way he held her to him `ere he went to war, And sorely
did she weep to know that they must walk apart, When Nosta Kar
attacked the Lions, grim soldiers by the score.
Chorus
He spied upon the Nosta Kar; he even faked his death,
She waited for him night and day, she longed his wounds to tend,
She yearned to hold him to her breast, she ached to feel his breath,
But he marched to face his doom, unflinching to the end.
Chorus
A fire imp from hellish depths they summoned, and he died,
And ne'er again would Cougar come and take her by the hand,
And all the Lions bowed their heads, it could not be denied
That never had a braver man defended Lions' land.
Chorus