Bonfire, by the light of flickering flame,
What scorching tenets you reveal of fate!
Sagas of past friendship and faded fame
Your passionate refrains articulate!
Earnestly you sing tales of ancient folk;
Verse of hearth for a hundred thousand years,
Born on tongues in distant times and places.
I glimpse late firesides in the rising smoke.
In the embers and ashes, through my tears,
I can almost see the somber faces.

 ~ Daniel F Mitchell