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Song title: The Ocean - The City In The Sea

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Lo, death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone

Lo, a strange town, lying alone
Death has reared himself a throne, far down in the west
Where the good, bad, worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest

There, shrine and towers
Death has reared himself a throne

Time eaten towers that tremble not
Resemble nothing, nothing that is ours

Down, down in that town, shall settle hence
Hell rising from its throne, no earthly moans
Shall do it reverence

No rays from heaven coming down
On the long night time of that town
But light from the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently

Gleams up the pinnacles far and free
Up domes, up spires, up kingly halls
Up fanes, up Babylon like walls

No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far off happy seas
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene

But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave, there is a movement there
As if the towes had thrust aside
In slightly sinking, the dull tide

Acquiescently beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie
The waves have now a redder glow
The hours are breathing faint and low
And when amid no earthly moans

Down, down in the town shall settle hence
Hell rising from a thousand thrones
Shall do it reverence

Down, down in that town, shall settle hence
Hell rising from its throne, no earthly moans
Shall do it reverence

Three opens fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye
Not the gaily jewelled dead

Tempt the waters from their bed
So blend the turrets, shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air
While from a tower in the town
Death looks down

But lo, a stir is in the air
The waves have now a redder glow
The hours are breathing faint and low
And when amid no earthly moans

Down, down in that town shall settle hence
Hell rising from a thousand thrones
Shall do it reverence

Far down within the dim West
Where the good and the band and
The worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest

Waves have now a red glow
Hours breathe low
No men moan

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