Interpreting the Rising Poem

[Aeliott]

All but the last 2 lines about the spear and blade seem to be general metaphorical tomfoolery for the cycle / balance of light and darkness. Given that the Warriors of Darkness are now coming to the foreground, I'd wager it's a reference to them. There's a clear duality. Pillars of life (WoL), pillars of strife (WoD), despair vs prayer etc. And this is somehow connected to thy (our) crystal of light. Hm... also

Thy (your) adamant spear bores steeps entire (pierces stone)
thy (your) argent blade cleaves oceans deep

We have...great power. That can pierce hard things :P

I find the French version a bit more easy to speculate on than the other vague ones.
"the souls unchained send their laments." - the Warriors of Darkness? Ascians?
"the breath of prayer arrives in the holy land." - we'll be travelling to a land considered holy? The end of the Dragonsong war?

There's a lot of spiral imagery, but the English version especially is littered with aquatic association words. Whorl, dross, eddy, flux, flow, gyre, oceans.
Wasn't the first expansion a toss-up between sea and sky (the sky being Heavensward)? Maybe it's a very vague nod to the next expansion somehow, assuming there will still be a water theme. Then again, it's _only_ the English version which has this, the others have no such theme.

Just tossing ideas at the wall :P