One Rode to ASA Bay

One man rode the way through the woods
 Down to Asa bay
 Where dragon ships had sailed to sea
 More times than one could say
 To see with own eyes the wonder
 People told of from man to man
 The God of all almightyness
 Had arrived from a foreign land
 The rumours told of a man
 Who had come from the other side the seas
 Carrying gold cross around neck in chain
 And spoke in strange tongue of peace
 He had come with strange men in armour
 Dressed in purple shirts and lace
 Smelling not of beer but flowers
 And with no hair in face
 And the bold man carrying cross
 Had told all one of Asa bay
 The God of all man woman child had come
 To them all save
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 And to thank Lord of Heaven
 One should build to God a house
 And to save one's soul from Hell
 One should be baptised and say vows
 A man of pride with the Hammer told new God
 To build his house on own
 And spoke loud of the Gods of their fathers
 Not too long time gone
 The rumours said the man with a beard like fire
 The Hammer in chain
 By men in armour silenced was and by
 Their swords was slain
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 Those who did not pay the one coin
 Of four to man of new God
 Whipped was twenty and put in chains then locked
 By their neck to the log
 And so all of Asa bay did build
 A house of the cross
 Every hour of daylight they did sweat
 Limbs ached because faith does cost
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 And on the day two hundred
 There it stood white to the sky
 The house of the God of the cross
 Big enough to take two dragon ships inside
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 All of Asa bay did watch
 The wonder raise to the sky
 Now must the God of the cross be pleased satisfied
 
 Just outside the circle of the crowd
 One old man did stand
 He looked across the waters
 And blotted the sun out of his eyes with one hand
 
 And his old eyes could almost see
 The dragon ships set sail
 His old ears could almost hear
 Men of great numbers call out Oden's hail
 And though he did know already
 Though he turned face towards sky
 Whispered silent words forgotten
 Spoken only way up high
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 Now this house of a foreign God does stand
 Now must they leave us alone
 Still he heard from somewhere in the woods
 Old crow of wisdom say
 ...people of Asa land, it's only just begun...