My eyes hold the eventide, -- albeit behind the eyes thou hast
Thro' which I 'hold naught else -- a flame enshroud'd in its blackness;
But the raven; -- burning without the faintest breeze
Sleep my dearest ones - -- teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore
Mind not the palling velvet darkness -- thou by such angst mark'd art?!

Wherefore is here loneliness?;
Infinite hollowness
In which my thoughts echo
To the shadows i whisper -
With the shadows i waltz -
Bear me; i am not the plague
Altho' nightclad death ... mayhap?!

Dare not naysaying my grant; -- dance no longer with the shadows
Vanish with me abaft the unlight! - -- dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard;
O! the taste on thine lips; -- dance with me the mephisto waltz
A trickling deep red love - -- wedlock 'twixt day and night -
Everlasting lightheart'dness - -- offer me relief fro the sunrays
A kiss for thee my dear

Ah! such delight i sense: -- eternally and ne'erendingly;
Savour the bitter grapes of life! -- a soulsister of thine i am

-- let me openly greet thy kiss;
-- the most loving and caring bites
Grant me thineself!
I bore the woe in my heart
My heart was shatter'd into its tithe, -- as i depart embrace me
Save yet are its chambers in flood. -- and in paltry time will i re-awake -
-- i love thee