Obsequiae

Lyrics to Ceres in Emerald Streams




Throned beside the purling brook

Where throstles sing to wild throngs

Dance the fount in sweet perfume

Naiads adjuring charms and song



Fragrant springtide winds now call

To the reticence of bloom

In mirthless, sylvan meadows

Where daylight begins to loom



Here where currents gleam in silver passage

Arise now from your sleep

Sonne mandeth hire lyht



Known now is her presence

In the glimmer of the water

Undulating pools windswept

Where Ceres awaits her daughter



All life awaits you

Gilded by sunlight



Resplendence of the old Earth

As the shadows acquiesce

An aurous sunset gleams

Against the irises effloresce



Do you remember how long it's been

Since your last breath was drawn?

How do you spend your lonely hours

When the sadness carries on?



Besotted by nighted heavens

Or the colors one seeks in dreams

Where bloom evinces sorrow

And waits in emerald streams



Ase strem that striketh stille

Mody meneth, so doth mo

Mon mandeth hire lyht

So doth the semly sonne bryht