Even Song Mysterium 1. The Nameless Eidolon Darkness devours me again the whirling, black depth of abyssmal night And he stands before me like a dreadful prophet like some ancient Mysteriarch O those eldritch eyes they glow like sorcerous orbs like fearful stars of unseen spheres wise with the secrets of Time I know he came for me through the vast gateways of hell passing from fearful, grey worlds hidden deep in nightmare's well The ravenous demons of time fed upon me like vultures upon the flesh O, cryptical phantasm let me drown with the oblivious flow of non-existence Come swiftly sublime spectre reveal the endless voids that Night does hide Spread thine empyreal wings and lead me to the vast eternity of dark 2. Mysterium How long have we sought after the forbidden gate that opens into unknown spheres? How long have we fathomed the sky for the star-pinioned gods of Space? Like phantoms of an ancient necropolis we wander in the labyrinth of Life, where reigns the dreadful Tyrant, great Chimera of Time What evil conjurer evoked us to this horrid world to this waste realm of gloom? What supreme, ravenous and insatiable will rent us from our empyreal abode? How could we defy the old seraphic ban and re-enter the fabled gates of heavens? 3. To The Abyss Unfathomable What luminous galaxies have been thy prey O, all-consuming, restrainless Space? What gyres of planets sunk in thy voidness absolute O, indivisible infinity? O, unrevealed Abyss, whose deep sustains flaming, triumphant suns, what further,distant worlds doth thee hide in thy universe-ulterior vast? O, direful chasm, elder gods' necropolis, what star-possessed realms rest within thy depths? 4. Whispers From The Arcane World Now as the Night takes form upon the face of sun and new shadows appear upon the lone, phantasmagoric sky a world, hidden and arcane, arise from cryptical depths, hinderless and stark One with night's perplexed mystery unrevealed by the scyhted moon's light phantoms of times remote gather beneath the bizzare, livid sky Behold this darkling realm filled with mysteries of aeons bygone Step inside the darkness that lays bare the secret spheres of the dream-woven sisterworld Beyond these phantasm-guarded gates where gyving Time and Space are not awaits a world ulterior, a realm unexplored large as Infinity Now as the Night takes form upon the face of sun and new shadows appear upon the lone, phantasmagoric sky a world, hidden and arcane, arise from cryptical depths, hinderless and stark Behold, this is a stranger earth, a moonlight-drenched, enchanted land a world wherein all the cares of life are forgot a long-sought realm of wonder 5. Passing Of The Elder Gods Where have you gone, O, old Gods of Earth what far, planet-paven ways doth you walk? Upon the marginless sky, where once your chariots rolled now a cruel and ravenous tyrant enthrones Shall you come to us in star-emblazoned dreams mounted on silver-haired unicorns? Shall you appear again proud gods of old in the blaze of sidereal multitude? O, blinded fools of Jahve behold the creation of your lord! Earth is now but a rigid semblance of a long-dead, once wondrous world, a ruined pantheon of beauty, a vast sepulchre of gloom O, blinded fools of Jahve behold the creation of your lord! The Huntress rides no more , the Elder gods left this hoary planet And remains not faith enough to bring them back- Pan to his wood, Artemis to her moon 6. Time [A poem by P.B. Shelley (1792-1822)] Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?