Marche Funèbre / Eye of Solitude Collapse / Darkness 1. Eye of Solitude - Collapse All these souls, entwined In nowhere to grieve The loss upon us Calling indifference Forgotten memories Fallen like ashes in vain The scorn evil collapses towards down to earth Whispering fears The sins of life to pained existence In the arms of perdition On your knees tremble cold Of denial ascending towards you Memories torn ever by rendered rain Entangled by you Entangled by us 2. Marche Funèbre - Darkness I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, And the stars did wander darkling In the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; And all hearts were chill'd Into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings— The huts, the habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black. All earth was but one thought—and that was death Immediate and inglorious; And the pang of famine fed upon all entrails— Men died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh; The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need of aid from them— She was the Universe.