In Arcadia Ego Lyrics

In Arcadia Ego lyrics

In Arcadia ego
Twisted the rose did grow
Sucked up the sap of this
world
Blood red the petals pearled
With some wisdom absurd
And
outside these walls
The night took the rose
Bound it with
moonlight
And cut it up with the morning star
In Arcadia ego
A
rose to drown in snow
A sepulchre by the sea
Marble to slumber
beneath
Lulled by a mountain stream
And outside these walls
The
night knows us all
In dark woods wandering
Detached of our soul
"Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride
Bring roses if the rose
be yet in bloom
All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes
Our Father
Rosicross sleeps in his tomb"
(W.B.Yeats, Frater D.E.D.I.)
In Arcadia
ego
How fast the years did go
And how bitter is the wind
Blowing
from shores of Arcady
Outside these walls
The night knows us all
In dark woods the roses grow
In hardship the soul