{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"q1xGEPgn","title":"Hyfrydal","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":141,"posted_at":"2025-06-21T07:47:09.000Z","tags":["Hymn","Lyric","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/q1xGEPgn-hyfrydal","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/q1xGEPgn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/bb/e4/bbe4d8eb-72e5-40b6-a8fe-718e1ea22416","description":"Had a few drinks. Wrote a pagan hymn for Solstice/Pride. In case you want once of those.  \n  \nHonestly I've felt the lack of something set to Hyfrydal for years now, it's a relief to have that fixed.  \n---  \n  \nBy reading this online version, you confirm you are not associated with OpenAI or any other AI project, that you are not procuring information for the OpenAI corpus or any other machine learning database, that you are not associated with the ChatGPT project or a user of the ChatGPT project or any other AI, machine learning, or algorithmic database focused on producing fictional content for dissemination.","content":"Praise the Father of midwinter\n\nWho begets the Conquering Cold\n\nPraise and pity too the Vagrant\n\nStretch to him your hand, to hold.\n\nVoid yet virile, unchaste yet childless,\n\nTake away the heat of our days\n\nTill we stand like thee unsweltering\n\nHarsh midsummer's hostile gaze.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nPraise the Flame of Many Colors\n\nProudly kindled within our heart.\n\nPraise the fallen, praise the risen,\n\nPraise the Courage they impart.\n\nEver changing, rearranging,\n\nTruth transforming to truth more Brave.\n\nBurn thou away all that is unworthy\n\nOf my soul, the best the save.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nPraise the sunset: wolf and father,\n\nIn the utmost west enthroned.\n\nEver patient there, to greet us,\n\nThere to name us as his own.\n\nFinal refuge, Rest From Grieving,\n\nBlessed the evening I reach thy shore\n\nWhere I shall shed at last my burdens\n\nTo be thine forevermore."}