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Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines: IV. Ruins Lyrics

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  • I knew they were Accursed
  • so remote were these nameless desert ruins
  • Crumbling and inarticulate the debris of
  • its collapsed walls was
  • Nearly hidden by the sands of the uncounted ages
  • It must have been thus before the first stones of
  • Memphis were laid
  • And the bricks of Babylon unbaked
  • Fear spoke from the age worn stones
  • This desolate survivor of the Deluge
  • This crumbling antidiluvial ancestor
  • Of the Eldest Pyramid
  • Only the grim brooding desert Gods
  • Knew what really took place here
  • What indescribable struggles and bloodshed
  • Awoke some distant throng of condemned spirits
  • And broke the tomblike silence of these crumbled
  • Time ravaged remains these night black ruins
  • Of some vanquished and buried Temple of Belial
  • But as the Night wind died away
  • Above the desert rim rose the
  • Blazing edge of the morning sun
  • Which in my fevered state
  • I swore that from some remote depth there came a
  • Great crash of metal
  • Like a great Bronze gate
  • Clanging shut whose reverberations swelled out
  • To hail the rising Sun as Memnon hails in
  • From the banks of the Nile

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