One for sorrow

Two for joy

Three for a girl

Four for a boy

Five for silver six for gold

Seven for a secret never to be told

Eight for a tale the stars have spun

Nine for a gate that can not be undone

Ten for a river of forgotten lore

Eleven for a key to the spectral door

Twelve for a mirror that reflects the night

Thirteen for a beast that lives in spite

Fourteen for a realm beyond our reach

Fifteen for a speec no tongue can teach

Sixteen for a dream trapped in stone

Seventeen for the old gods hollow moans

Eighteen for the abyss that gazes back

Nineteen for the cosmic formless wreak

Twenty for a magpies final verse in a universe where shadows converse, the end of the rhyme the start of the dread where not a single word is said