Die Bruderschaft Des Schmerzes - Lyrics by Sopor Aeternus


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By a route obscure and lonely, haunted by ill angels only,where an Eidolon named "
Night", on a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newly, from an ultimate dim Thule.from a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, out of space, out of time.
Bottomless wales and boundless floods, and chasmsand caves, and titan woods, with forms that noman can discover for the tears that drip all over,
Mountains topling evermore into seas without a shoreseas that restlessly aspire, surging into skies of fire.
Lakes that endlessly outspread their lone waters, lone and dead.
Their still waters, still and chilly with the snows of the lolling lilly.
By the lakes that thus outspread their lone water, lone and dead.
Their sad waters, sad and chilly with the snows of thelolling lilly, by the mountains, near the rivermurmuring slowly, murmuring ever - by the grey woods,by the swamp where the toad and the newt encamp,by the dismal tarns and pools where dwellthe Ghouls, by each spot that most unholy,in each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets,aghast, sheeted memories of the past,shrouded forms that start and sigh as they passthe wanderer by, white-robed forms of friendslong given, in agony, to Earth and Heaven.
For the heart whose woes are legion this is peaceful,soothing region, for the spirit that walksin shadows this is, oh, this is Eldorado!
Bid the traveller, travelling through it,may not dare not opening view itnever its mysteries are exposed to the weak human eye unclosed,so will its King who hath forbid the upliftingof the frigid lid, and thus the sad soulthat here passes beholds it but through darkened glasses.
By a route obscure and lonely, haunted byill angels only, where an Eidolon, named"
Night", on a black throne reigns upright,I have wandered home but newly from an ultimate dim Thule.
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