《The City in the Sea》歌词

歌曲： The City in the Sea

所属专辑：Edgar Allan Poe - Tales & Poems

歌手： Basil Rathbone&Edgar Alla

时长： 02:58

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The City in the Sea - Basil Rathbone/Edgar Allan Poe[00:00:00]

Lo Death has reared himself a throne[00:00:01]

In a strange city lying alone[00:00:06]

Far down within the dim West [00:00:10]

Where the good and the bad[00:00:13]

And the worst and the best[00:00:16]

Have gone to their eternal rest [00:00:19]

There shrines and palaces and towers[00:00:23]

Time-eaten towers that tremble not[00:00:27]

Resemble nothing that is ours [00:00:31]

Around by lifting winds forgot [00:00:34]

Resignedly beneath the sky[00:00:37]

The melancholy waters lie [00:00:39]

No rays from the holy heaven come down[00:00:43]

On the long night-time of that town;[00:00:45]

But light from out the lurid sea[00:00:48]

Streams up the turrets silently[00:00:50]

Gleams up the pinnacles far and free[00:00:54]

Up domes- up spires up kingly halls[00:00:57]

Up fanes- up Babylon like walls[00:01:03]

Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers[00:01:07]

Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers[00:01:09]

Up many and many a marvellous shrine[00:01:13]

Whose wreathed friezes intertwine[00:01:16]

The viol the violet and the vine [00:01:18]

Resignedly beneath the sky[00:01:22]

The melancholy waters lie [00:01:26]

So blend the turrets and shadows there[00:01:29]

That all seem pendulous in air [00:01:33]

While from a proud tower in the town[00:01:38]

Death looks gigantically down [00:01:44]

There open fanes and gaping graves[00:01:47]

Yawn level with the luminous waves;[00:01:50]

But not the riches there that lie[00:01:53]

In each idol's diamond eye[00:01:55]

Not the gaily-jewelled dead[00:01:57]

Tempt the waters from their bed;[00:01:59]

For no ripples curl alas [00:02:03]

Along that wilderness of glass-[00:02:06]

No swellings tell that winds may be[00:02:10]

Upon some far-off happier sea[00:02:14]

No heavings hint that winds have been[00:02:17]

On seas less hideously serene [00:02:19]

But lo a stir is in the air [00:02:24]

The wave- there is a movement there [00:02:27]

As if the towers had thrust aside [00:02:30]

In slightly sinking the dull tide[00:02:32]

As if their tops had feebly given[00:02:35]

A void within the filmy Heaven [00:02:36]

The waves have now a redder glow[00:02:40]

The hours are breathing faint and low[00:02:42]

And when amid no earthly moans [00:02:45]

Down down that town shall settle hence [00:02:48]

Hell rising from a thousand thrones [00:02:51]

Shall do it reverence[00:02:54]