In poverty of the soul Night the limbs wept In peril all shadows halt That all flesh failed The teeth of time gnaw aloud Born of times past Reciting a sanguine script Etched on death's grief Drag from beauty all the blood that melted our truth Deadness hangs from beneath the breath of forever For the Sabbath sleeps below a vault unhallowed Sheltered, shrouded, scorn of lightning; The void caressed From the holy tree shaken Night falls to earth Like the waves that bled the moon In her vast glow Drag from beauty all the blood that melted our truth Deadness hangs from beneath the breath of forever For the Sabbath sleeps below a vault unhallowed Sheltered, shrouded, scorn of lightning; The void caressed