Die bruderschaft des schmerzes - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows (永恒沉睡)
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 chasms
And caves
And titan woods
With forms
That no
Man can discover
For the tears
That drip all over
Mountains topling evermore
Into seas
Without a shore
Seas 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 the lolling lilly
By the mountains
Near the river
Murmuring slowly
Murmuring ever
By the grey woods
By the swamp
Where the toad
And the newt encamp
By the dismal tarns
And pools
Where that dwell
The 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 pass
The wanderer by
White robed forms
Of friends long given
In agony
To earth and heaven
For the heart
Whose bows are legion
This is peaceful
Soothing region
For the spirit
That walks in shadows
This is
Oh
This is eldorado
Bid the traveller
Travelling through it
May not dare
Not opening view it
Never
Its mysteries
Are exposed
To the weak
Human eye unclosed
So will its king
Who hath forbid
The uplifting
Of the frigid lid
And thus
The sad soul
That here passes
Beholds it
But through darkened glasses
By a route
Obscure and lonely
Haunted by
Ill angels only
Where an eidolon
Named night
On a black throne
Reigns upright
I have wandered home
But newly
From an ultimate
Dim thule
