Translation Golf XLVI - The Bard's Song (In the Forest)

Question

Game finished. The winner is walen with a proposal of just 195 characters and asonante rhyme. User blonfu came up with a proposal of the same length but failed to rhyme the first two verses.

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Welcome to a new edition of the game! If this is your first time, there's some info for beginners at the end of this post.

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Following are the first verses of one of the most popular songs by the power metal band Blind Guardian, The Bard's Song - In the Forest:

Now you all know
The bards and their songs
When hours have gone by
I'll close my eyes
In a world far away
We may meet again
But now hear my song
About the dawn of the night
Let's sing the bards' song

Tomorrow will take us away
Far from home
No one will ever know our names
But the bards' songs will remain
Tomorrow will take it away
The fear of today
It will be gone
Due to our magic songs

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The goal is to translate the given text to Spanish, using as few letters as possible, while keeping all the original text's meaning and concepts more or less intact.

My own, non-golfed translation:

Ahora conocéis
A los bardos y sus canciones
Cuando hayan pasado las horas
Cerraré mis ojos
En un mundo distante
Podríamos volver a vernos
Por ahora, oíd mi canción
Sobre el amanecer de la noche
Cantemos la canción del bardo

El mañana nos llevará
Lejos de casa
Nadie conocerá nunca nuestros nombres
Pero las canciones de los bardos perdurarán
El mañana se llevará
Los miedos de hoy
Se irán
Gracias a la magia de nuestras canciones

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Remember that every word and concept that appear in the original text must also appear in the translation. I'll check with special care the following:

• The references to the bards and their songs.
• The chance of meeting again in the future.
• Let's sing the bard's song.
• The bard's songs being the only thing that remains when all the other things are gone.
• The healing ability of the bard's songs.

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General rules for this game are as follows:

• Rules: Translation-golf rules
• Rhyme bonus: if you are up for a challenge, make your translation rhyme to get a 10% discount bonus in your total char count!
  • The rhyming in this song seems to be a bit loose, so this time you can create your own rhyming as long as there are 16 verses rhyming of a total of 17 verses in the original song. Just state in your answer which verses are the ones rhyming.
  • You can still get a 5% discount if your rhyming is asonante.

Also, remember that not every character counts for the total: only letters and numbers do. You can paste your translation in the letter counter linked below to obtain your char count.

• Letter counter: jsfiddle

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Have fun!

Answer 1

195 caracteres

Saben ya
de bardos y sus tonos
Horas tras,
cerraré mis ojos.
En mundo lejano
revernos podremos.
Mas ya del ocaso
oye mi canto.
El del bardo
cantemos.

Cras
ajenos
de la gente y el lar
mas el son quedará.
El miedo
de hoy
cras se irá
por nueso mágico son.

Rima asonante, ababcdcccd adaadeae. Recordemos que en los diptongos se considera que existe asonancia cuando la vocal tónica es la misma (Wikipedia: Rima), por tanto hoy rima con son.

Answer 2

326 caracteres

Conocen ahora
las canciones bardas.
Cuando pase la hora
mis pupilas estarán cerradas.

En mundos que distantes
nuestras almas reencontradas
pero escucha mis cantares
del amanecer nocturno.
Cantemos las canciones bardas.

El mañana nos llevará
de casa muy lejos.
Los nombres olvidará
pero quedarán las canciones bardas.
El mañana se llevará
el miedo del hoy
se irá
por nuestras canciones mágicas.

Answer 3

271 195

Ya sabéis
de cantos de vates
después
los ojos cerraré
en un orbe lejano
quizá nos veamos
oye mi canto
del alba nocturna
dale al aire de los bardos

Estaremos
tan lejos
ignotos
quedará el tono
mañana
el miedo acaba
se irá
con el mágico cantar

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_{Rima de versos consecutivos en asonante, salvo el verso 6 que rima con el 8 y el 7 queda libre}