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andrew downes - dreamland lyrics

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 clime that lieth, sublime
out of sp+ce + out of time

bottomless vales 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 toppling evermore
into seas without a shore;
seas that restlessly aspire
surging, unto skies of fire;
lakes that endlеssly outspread
their lone watеrs + lone and dead, +
their still waters + still and chilly
with the snows of the lolling lily

by the lakes that thus outspread
their lone waters, lone and dead, +
their sad waters, sad and chilly
with the snows of the lolling lily, +
by the mountains + near the river
murmuring lowly, murmuring ever, +
by the grey woods, + by the swamp
where the toad and the newt encamp +
by the dismal tarns and pools
where dwell the ghouls, +
by each spot the 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 the earth + and heaven
for the heart whose woes are legion
’tis a peaceful, soothing region +
for the spirit that walks in shadow
’tis + oh, ’tis an eldorado!
but the traveller, travelling through it
may not + dare not openly view it!
never its mysteries are exposed
to the weak human eye unclosed;
so wills its king, who hath forbid
the uplifting of the fringed 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 this ultimate dim thule

- andrew downes lyrics

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