Aeternum Vale

BOLIVIA

AETERNUM VALE

A god mysterious and alien visits the forest,

A silent god with wide arms extended.

When the daughter of Thor spurred on her black charger,

She felt her blood congeal

Before the silent god with the wide arms extended.

By the sacred rim of the fountain of Imer

Unto startled gods night revealed the secret.

The black eagle and Odin's ravens hearkened,

And swans waiting the hour of their last singing.

And terror bit the gods

For that silent god with wide arms extended.

Thor, swinger of maces, rough terrible warrior-

In his grasp the black iron mountain for weapon-

Seeks to crush in the forest, in the sacred tree's shadow,

That silent god with the wide arms extended.

The gods see the loud mace

As it swings through the air, darkening the daylight.

In the sacred wood the old psalms sound no longer,

Nor the soft voice of Freya as she sings in the distance.

On Orga's tongue the divine song is extinguished.

Tall, alone in the shade,

Stands a silent god with wide arms extended.

Ricardo Faimes Freyre