What hell is this? A noxious nameless mist Hangs like tatters, but binds like chains This morbid frame Writhing, rotting in the veins Sous les griffes du diable I have so long longed for the lance To lap these entrails bare, to divine Poison courses through blood, thickening and slow From cold crypted corners, rises once again Pallid, rotting on the vine I cast myself Sous les griffes du diable Le sang fatigue de l'homme dissipé What recourse, what remains Bu to reel the midnight through Sheer lunatic defiancе of Nature's fair designs Rank, decadеnt denial Against Bios, against Life I am betrayed, abandoned By the mute contempt of my own flesh I must wrench my death from this vital frame What recourse but to glut the maw The reeling midnight through