Here amid the summer silence Let me stand and close my eyes As the golden strands of sunlight High above the hills do rise Here I stand among the meadows Dreaming of days long ago In my mind I see their faces All the friends I used to know I recall when we were children How we dreamed of going forth To where battles raged like thunder In the mountains of the north Then the call to war came sounding One that we could not deny Off we marched beneath the moonlight Answering the battle’s cry There upon the field of bloodshed Entered we a living hell Screams and roars, they shook the mountains Comrades all around me fell Love and mercy fled forever Men and women beasts became And I turned and fled the fury Weeping tears of grief and shame I remember that dark nightmare For those days of peace I yearn And I pray for my lost comrades Warriors who’ll not return.