Starfall Pool (ballad)

"Starfall Pool" was a ballad by an unknown composer about the glade and pool of the same name located north of Silverymoon near the edge of the Moonwood. It described a place of restful healing, a dancing dryad, and strange dreams. This song was famous throughout Luruar by the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR.

Lyrics
The ballad was long and there were many versions, but each verse was followed by the well-known refrain: "There is a place in the deep green wood

Where the dryad Olsheirie dwells

Dancing where a keep once stood

Girt with magic of chiming bells.

Refrain:

Though to stray so deep is the act of a fool

I regret no stride toward Starfall pool.

Came I there by happy chance

And there I'll thither go again

To dream more dreams of fair romance

For by the pool I know no pain.

(Refrain)

Trees old and green, dark and still

Ring 'round an oak as old as time

Fall down keep and rise up hill

Rest and hear the dryad rhyme.

(Refrain)

Kindled by the dying embers

Of a fire that must not stay

Magic soars and then remembers

Warding me again away.

(Refrain)

Back I'll go when I am able

Though long rides may lie between

Peace again upon my table

Lying on the moss so green."

- From "Starfall Pool"

Other Versions
The ballad usually went on to describe healing of mind and body, or meeting fair folk, humans and half-elves, in deep dreams of joyous recreation, courtship, or humorous exploits; but other versions hinted of dark magic with a siren's lure, or an evil wizard that threatened the glade or the dryad.