If I might try my hand, with a personal favorite. Let me see if I get the gist of this...
The Ents' Marching Song
We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!
We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-runa runa runa rom!
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door;
For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come;
To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!
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They go, they go, without pluck of the bow, at-under under under tom!
They go, they go, without piano or bow, at-under under under tom!
From Edoras, o'er Edoras be not straight and open with roofs of glass;
O'er Edoras be not weak nor soft, not hot as flame or lush as grass,
They come, they come, they come from peace, to spread the flame and build the roof;
And root and weed weren't wat'ring then, the chimney whines - they come aloof!
From sea of light with prow e'er bright, with pluck of the bow, , they go, they go;
From Edoras with right they go!
With light they go, with light they go!
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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