We all know,
One for sorrow,
Two for Joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
And seven the secret,
Never to be told,
Eight for the darkness,
Where time stands still,
Nine for the silence,
When life stops moving,
Ten for the all consuming cold.
Eleven for the new gods from the old,
Twelve for the truth that cannot be untold,
Thirteen for the final decay of gold,
Fourteen for the silver never to be sold,
Fifteen for the child born with no sole,
Sixteen for the joy falsely sold,
Seventeen for the sorrow we all will know.

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