Black Cube Poems

A large black cube in the Tarot Dungeon contained these lines of texts, two on each face. The exact order of the poem has not been determined, so faces are given as a reference point.

    With a host of furious fancies
    Whereat I am commander (east face)
    With a burning spear and a horse of air
    To the virgin's horns I wander (south face)
    By a maid of ghosts in shadow
    I summoned am to tourney (west face)   
    Five leagues beyond the bright world's end (may be wild instead of bright)
    Methinks it is no journey (north face)

(Order corrected by Achaeus)

When the cube was struck with a weapon, it vibrated and then new lines appeared while the cube vibrated. Sadko later told us that these lines were from a Greek children's song, and he gave us the correct order:

    So I do sing any food
    Any feeding (east face)
    Feeding, drink, or clothing (north face)
    Come dame or maid
    Be not afraid (west face)
    Poor Thom will injure nothing (south face)

More verses from Achaeus:

    The snails and pearly oysters 
    are none of Tom's comrados
    The welk I scorn 
    and the cutthroats sworn
    and the cuttlefish bravados
    The meek the white the gentil 
    me fondle touch and spar not
    Who dare cross Tom Rhinoceros 
    do what the panther dare not

    So I will sing...[chorus]

    The book of moons bring with you
    and the wayward words ethereal
    The sister who lived from the sister who lived
    and the roguish boy's material
    but where will Tom betake him then
    his food and clothing readied
    Oh Tom will go where the strange winds blow
    and no one tells him thus and so
    but other than that he just don't know 
    just where on earth he's headed