The Poet's Death lyrics

When the sun has drowsed behind the silent hill When the spirits drown in your veins Teach me how to sing Let me follow right Toward your fading face Toward the bottom of the night Where I learn to praise Hold me My angel of twilight My window's open The nightmares of the (after?) dark Oh cypress by the river Oh shepperd of my sole The violet on your shoulder The round ring of the moon You are the father's distance Your lips are silent still Your eyes are gone forever You're my grieving dream When the sun has drowsed behind the silent hill When the spirits drown in your veins Teach me how to sing Let me follow right Toward your fading face Toward the bottom of the night Where I learn to praise Hold me My angel of twilight My window's open The nightmares of the (after?) dark