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Täkaya baal-Avzkë wo-Fürktor

Aya vilya bäkenna Läyalhädäm

Bayná Dünnüm sünh wurþ

Wurþin zünhar Zpägel

Wol-Anziktaya

Ow Aya, Antonius Block,

Zpäl Xëk með Döða

Männzka Hamtókam

Udzätiyam Gemzkáporëm

Ow Aya Antonius Block,

Zpäl Xëk með Döða

Täkaya baal-Avzkë

Wo-Früktor wo-Früktor

Hälläm i-Fantäziwärd

Rinztë od-Drümmüm

Män Döða

þoya Vilyáka

Yá Aya Vilya

Ow þänn wað Ventáka?

yt Vänðskap

Vilya Uðyákta

Gyð wod-Dünnüm

Sirya Ÿri,

Wol-Zöya

Män Wurþin

Finäz

Ow Zpálya Xëk

með Döða

_________

I am filled with Fear and Disgust

I want to confess my Loyaulty

But my Heart is empty

The Emptiness is a Mirror turned

Towards my own Face

And I, Antonius Block

Am playing Chess with Death

Through my Indifference to my Fellow Men,

I have isolated Myself from their Company

And I, Antonius Block

Am playing Chess with Death

I am filled with Fear and Disgust.

Now I live in a World of Phantoms.

I am imprisoned in my Dreams and Fantasies.

And yet you

don't want to die

Yes, I do.

What are you waiting for?

Knowledge

I want to tear

God out of my Heart

I call out to Him

In the Dark

But no one

Seems to be there.

And I play Chess

with Death