The Green of Rysen Hill

Can you see the half moon rising From the sea so dark and wide Far beyond that east horizon Lies an island on the tide Where the land was fair and plenty And the queen was fairer still And she walked beside her noble king On the green of Rysen Hill Did you see the old sun sinking On the sea so dark and wild Far beyond the waves are breaking On the shores of the Shining Isle But the forests burned and blackened And the land is ash and flame And the king, they say, is fallen And his warden brother slain But the half-moon light is given By a sun no eye can see And the day will conquer night again By the Maker's good decree And beneath the smoke and ruin Lo, the land is fertile still And a king one day will sing again On the green of Rysen Hill On the green of Rysen Hill