Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes (Die Unbegreiflichkeit des dunklen Pfades, den die Kinder Saturns gehen) - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows

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 weird clime that lieth sublime out of space out of time

Bottomless wales 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 topling evermore into seas without a shore

Seas that restlessly aspire surging into skies of fire

Lakes that endlessly outspread their lone waters lone and dead

Their still waters still and chilly with the snows of the lolling lilly

By the lakes that thus outspread their lone waters lone and dead

Their sad waters sad and chilly with the snows of the

Lolling lilly by the mountains near the river

Murmuring slowly 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 that 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 earth and heaven

For the heart whose woes are legion this is peaceful

Soothing region for the spirit that walks

In shadows this is oh this is eldorado

Bid the traveller travelling through it

May not dare not opening view it

Never its mysteries are exposed to the weak human eye unclosed

So will its king who hath forbid the uplifting

Of the frigid 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 an ultimate dim thule