Apollyon - Darkness Lyrics
I had a dream, which was not all a dreamThe bright sun was extinguish'd and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moonless air;Morn came, and went – and came, and brought no day,And men forget their passions in dreadOf this their desolation;The world was voidThe populous and the powerful was a lumpSeasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless,A lump of death – a chaos of hard clayThe rivers lakes, and ocean, all stood still,And nothing stirred within their silent depths;The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,The moon, their mistress, had expired before;The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no needOf aid from them – she was the universe