Due to Spinorial's great finding and upon further investigation. It seems that Room 1's puzzle is bugged by html formatting (double spaces turn into single spaces). So, I will post the full answer for the first room. The puzzle can be found here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/best_main_menu_evah/post6 The full text and the decrypted poem reads:
The door opens and in you find the words atop: DEFEAT
You find yourself in a small room with nothing but a lone torch to light it. The smell of the dead is thick here and you find the walls to be incredibly sandy. Through the sand you find strange letters and swiftly you mark it out hoping to find some clue.
Before the Black Gates, I stand,
Bearing a fist full of bloodied sand.
Ye thy souls of my comrades dead;
Who stood for thee, all my beloved.