The Sleeper-Sopo Aeternus

[ti:The Sleeper (by Edgar Allan POE)] [ar:Sopo Aeternus] [al:Dead Lover's Sarabande (Face One)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sleeper - Sopo Aeternus [00:55.65]At midnight in the month of June [01:01.39] [01:02.14]I stand beneath the mystic moon [01:07.51] [01:08.59]An opiate vapor dewy dim [01:14.28] [01:14.84]Exhales from out her golden rim [01:20.31] [01:21.26]And softly dripping drop by drop [01:26.71] [01:27.73]Upon the quiet mountain top [01:33.26] [01:34.11]Steals drowsily and musically [01:39.38] [01:40.49]Into the universal valley [01:45.74] [01:46.83]The rosemary nods upon the grave [01:52.46] [01:53.26]The lily lolls upon the wave [01:58.78] [01:59.72]Wrapping the fog about it's breast [02:05.26] [02:05.92]The ruin molders into rest [02:11.64] [02:12.61]Looking like Lethe see the lake [02:17.98] [02:18.86]A conscious slumber seems to take [02:24.19] [02:25.27]And would not for the world awake [02:30.73] [02:31.71]And would not for the world awake [02:37.01] [02:38.08]All Beauty sleeps - and lo where lies [02:43.63] [02:44.47]The skace men dou ben till the sky [02:49.99] [02:51.18]Irene with her Destinies [02:56.15] [03:04.85]O lady bright can it be right [03:09.04] [03:10.09]This window open to the night [03:15.57] [03:16.65]The wanton airs from the tree-top [03:21.89] [03:22.84]Laughingly through the lattice drop [03:28.40] [03:29.37]The bodiless airs a wizard rout [03:34.92] [03:35.66]Flit through thy chamber in and out [03:41.30] [03:42.25]And wave the curtain canopy [03:47.31] [03:48.37]So fitfully- so cearfully [03:53.99] [05:41.61]Above the closed and fringed lid [05:46.04] [05:47.80]Neath which thy slumb ring soul lies hid [05:52.11] [05:54.30]That over the floor and down the wall [05:59.14] [06:00.61]Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall [06:05.27] [06:07.07]Oh lady dear hast thou no fear [06:11.83] [06:13.31]Why and what art thou dreaming here [06:17.95] [06:19.64]Sure thou art come over far-off seas [06:24.22] [06:25.86]A wonder to these garden trees [06:30.59] [07:11.40]Strange is thy pallor strange thy dress [07:15.77] [07:17.28]Strange above all thy length of tress [07:21.71] [07:23.03]And this all this [07:27.24] [07:30.13]And this all solemn silentness [07:34.71] [07:36.76]My lover sleeps Oh may her sleep [07:40.78] [07:42.75]Which is enduring so be deep [07:47.71] [07:50.00]Heaven have her in it's sacred keep [07:59.33] [08:02.28]This chamber changed for one more holy [08:06.83] [08:08.60]This bed for one more melancholy [08:13.64] [08:14.20]I pray to God that he may lie [08:19.28] [08:21.35]For ever with unopened eye [08:25.97] [08:28.88]While the pale sheeted ghosts go by [08:37.82] [09:33.97]My love she sleeps Oh may her sleep [09:36.69]As it is lasting so be deep [09:39.51] [09:40.07]Soft may the worms about her creep [09:43.09]May the worms about her creep [09:46.03]My love she sleeps Oh may her sleep [09:49.01]As it is lasting so be deep [09:51.51] [09:52.09]Soft may the worms about her creep [09:55.14]May the worms about her creep [09:57.84] [09:59.33]My love she sleeps oh may her sleep [10:03.26] [10:04.38]As it is lasting so be deep [10:09.59] [10:10.46]Soft may the worms about her creep [10:15.67] [10:22.79]Far in the forest dim and old [10:27.86] [10:28.86]For her may some tall vault unfold [10:34.15] [10:34.99]Some vault that of the flung it's black [10:40.25] [10:41.12]And winged panels fluttering back [10:46.36] [10:47.48]Triumphant over the crested palls [10:52.63] [10:53.47]Of her grand family funerals [10:58.77] [10:59.50]Some sepulchre remote alone [11:04.83] [11:05.79]Against whose portal she hath thrown [11:11.03] [11:13.60]In childhood many an idle stone [11:16.82] [11:24.00]Some tomb from out whose sounding door [11:29.75] [11:30.51]She never shall force an echo more [11:35.58] [11:37.01]Thrilling to think poor child of sin [11:42.59] [11:43.72]It was the dead who groaned within