Paroles de Necropendulum

Overtone of melancholy Descried obliterated Memories through crevices And cracks in hoary timber roofs Beneath the sordid passage bodies entombed Fertilize my roots pillars consumed Amidst lumid remnants of embers long cold Rose from dust and ashes bled the lost city of aedis And the vast court dimm'd below rain-gray facade Sowed tremor thro' spectral portents in weird gust Uncannily from grounds beaten flat by rapid hounds Wound up, south front, twere but one horologe No more pends unsound Drudging are the shambled remains 'tween somber graves Sworn a waltz of death Necropendulum Keepers three stir rusty gears succumbing to decay Spewed from bowels of desolate eternities Until rays of morrow condemned spirits Quench hate aloft crypt of abysmal antiquities Rose from dust and ashes bled the lost city of aedis And the vast court dimm'd below rain-gray facade Sowed tremor thro' spectral portents in weird gust Uncannily from grounds beaten flat by rapid hounds Wound up, south front, twere but one horologe No more pends unsound