The Sleeper - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows (永恒沉睡) At midnight in the month of june I stand beneath the mystic moon An opiate vapor dewy dim Exhales from out her golden rim And softly dripping drop by drop Upon the quiet mountain top Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley The rosemary nods upon the grave The lily lolls upon the wave Wrapping the fog about its breast The ruin molders into rest Looking like lethe see the lake A conscious slumber seems to take And would not for the world awake And would not for the world awake All beauty sleeps and lo where lies All beauty sleeps and lo where lies O lady bright can it be right This 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 fringed 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 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 And this all solemn silentness The lady sleeps oh may her sleep Which is enduring so be deep Soft may the worms about her creep编辑于2021/05/13更新