Hearken as the winds of the Sky Realm blow As the silken tears of the sky still bleed The feathers of the frozen Stormbird fall Into my heart like winterchill and snow Let the freezing Fire return once more! Let the soothing Serpent of blazing cold Ever-on radiate the Colours Of this our shimmering season and manifest the omnifarious twilight Wherein the dead silence prevails... These frail beams of icy moonlight Failing to warm the brilliant night And swiftly... do the shadows arise The grim brooding darkness of winterdusk Journeys... yielding into the failing stars Of grandeur that are one with the puissance Of fierce tranquillity and the raging sorrowlust... Journeys... Misty faceless figures speak of soothe within the spheres Of these waning worlds that hold the ember of last hope... Yet the space-time draws nigh For the Aeonfrost to set in And as all the words were spoken One graceful Nocturne arose Through the heavens above And beyond the stars of the lustful firmament That is the Sky Realm And all that lies within its unyielding borders... We come to the outermost reaches of these worlds At the farthest verges of the manifold Universe Where the crystal surges of Cold and Silence withstand Where the eternal Winternight whispers her lullabies... For the true Terminus is Father-Winter The primal dwelling of Aeonfrost That shall conquer all that burns Therein all that still lingers will be lost Within the Silence of the everfrozen Winternight... Within the starlit domes of this everflaming sight! ...the skies are fading with our bleakness of heart Into the starblack ages yet to come... And the empty spaces beyond the reach of starlight Conquer all life with their songs of oblivion Let the freezing Fire return yet again! Let the slithering Serpent of lustrous dark ever-on radiate the Blackness Of these cold winter winds of the terminal nightfall of the doomed Universe And the eventide leaves fall within!