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The Sleeper

from Quoth The Raven by NimphaioN

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At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapour, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steal drowsily and musically
Into the universal grand valley

The rosemary nods upon the grave;
The lily lolls upon the wave;
Wrapping fog about its breast,
The ruin moulders into rest…

Looking like Lethe, see! The lake!
A conscious slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
All beauty sleeps! – And lo! Where lies
Mary on highs
This beauty dies…

Anemones
Of clemencies

Oh, lady bright! Can it be right –
The window open to the night?
The wanton airs, from the tree-top,
Laughingly through the lattice drop –

The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
Flit through thy chamber in and out,
And wave the curtain canopy
So fitfully – so fearfully –
Above the closed and fringéd lid
'Neath which thy slumb'ring soul lies hid,
That, o'er the floor and down the wall,
Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!

Anemones
Of clemencies

Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear?
Why and what art thou dreaming here?
Sure thou art come o'er far-off seas
A wonder to these garden trees!

Strange is thy pallor! Strange thy dress!
Strange, above all, thy length of tress… Tress
And this all solemn silentness!
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep! Deep!
Heaven have her in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
This bed for one more melancholy
(Melancholy…)
Is it a mirth or a whole folly?
I pray to God that she may lie
Forever with unopened eye,
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!

My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!

Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold –
Some vault that oft hath flung its black
And wing’d panels’ fluttering back,
Triumphant, o'er the crested palls,
Of her grand kindred funerals -
Some sepulchre, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, there’s an idle stone –
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within…

My friend! Take your staff, go wander through the valley, and in the longest night you shall fall into the deep eternal sleep… In this dream, try to see all the most beautiful and desirable that the soul yearns for centuries. Find happiness and truth in this unforgettable dream that gods give man only once!

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from Quoth The Raven, released April 13, 2018

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NIMPHAION – a symphonic black metal band from Shuya (Russia) formed in 2001.

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