The Haunted Palace

The Haunted Palace Lyrics

Song The Haunted Palace
Artist Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
Album Poetica
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[ti:The Haunted Palace]
[ar:Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows]
[al:Poetica]
[01:07.50] In the greenest of our valleys
[01:11.79] By good angels tenanted
[01:18.49] Once a fair and stately palace
[01:23.57] Radiant palace, reared its head
[01:30.89] In the monarch thought's dominion
[01:37.94] It stood there
[01:42.71] Never seraph spread a pinion
[01:47.57] Over fabric half so fair.
[02:26.30] Banners yellow, glorious, golden
[02:33.31] On its roof did float and flow,
[02:39.20] This, all this, was in the olden time long ago
[02:50.58] And every gentle air that dallied
[02:57.17] In that sweet day
[03:02.13] Along the ramparts plumed and pallid
[03:09.42] A winged odor went away.
[03:43.98] Wanderers in that happy valley
[03:50.90] Through two luminous windows saw
[03:55.71] Spirits moving musically
[04:01.29] To a lute's well-tuned law
[04:07.75] Round about a throne where sitting
[04:14.47] (Porphyrogene!)
[04:19.57] In state his glory well-befitting
[04:26.43] The ruler of the realm was seen.
[05:27.50] And all with pearl and ruby glowing
[05:33.10] Was the fair palace door
[05:38.11] Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
[05:43.96] And sparkling evermore
[05:49.91] A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
[05:57.10] Was but to sing
[06:03.59] In voices of surpassing beauty
[06:09.53] The wit and wisdom of their king.
[07:10.59] But evil things in robes of sorrow
[07:17.55] Assailed the monarch's high estate
[07:21.73] (Ah, let us mourn! for never morrow
[07:27.69] Shall dawn upon his desolate !)
[07:33.96] And round about his home the glory
[07:40.63] That blushed and bloomed
[07:45.14] Is but a dim-remembered story
[07:52.20] Of the old time entombed.
[08:04.80] And travellers, now, within that valley
[08:10.41] Through the red-litten windows see
[08:15.77] Vast forms that move fantastically
[08:22.60] To a discordant melody
[08:27.73] While, like a ghastly rapid river,
[08:34.50] Through the pale door
[08:39.41] A hideous throng rush out forever
[08:46.12] And laugh but smile no more.
ti: The Haunted Palace
ar: Sopor ternus the Ensemble of Shadows
al: Poetica
[01:07.50] In the greenest of our valleys
[01:11.79] By good angels tenanted
[01:18.49] Once a fair and stately palace
[01:23.57] Radiant palace, reared its head
[01:30.89] In the monarch thought' s dominion
[01:37.94] It stood there
[01:42.71] Never seraph spread a pinion
[01:47.57] Over fabric half so fair.
[02:26.30] Banners yellow, glorious, golden
[02:33.31] On its roof did float and flow,
[02:39.20] This, all this, was in the olden time long ago
[02:50.58] And every gentle air that dallied
[02:57.17] In that sweet day
[03:02.13] Along the ramparts plumed and pallid
[03:09.42] A winged odor went away.
[03:43.98] Wanderers in that happy valley
[03:50.90] Through two luminous windows saw
[03:55.71] Spirits moving musically
[04:01.29] To a lute' s welltuned law
[04:07.75] Round about a throne where sitting
[04:14.47] Porphyrogene!
[04:19.57] In state his glory wellbefitting
[04:26.43] The ruler of the realm was seen.
[05:27.50] And all with pearl and ruby glowing
[05:33.10] Was the fair palace door
[05:38.11] Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
[05:43.96] And sparkling evermore
[05:49.91] A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
[05:57.10] Was but to sing
[06:03.59] In voices of surpassing beauty
[06:09.53] The wit and wisdom of their king.
[07:10.59] But evil things in robes of sorrow
[07:17.55] Assailed the monarch' s high estate
[07:21.73] Ah, let us mourn! for never morrow
[07:27.69] Shall dawn upon his desolate !
[07:33.96] And round about his home the glory
[07:40.63] That blushed and bloomed
[07:45.14] Is but a dimremembered story
[07:52.20] Of the old time entombed.
[08:04.80] And travellers, now, within that valley
[08:10.41] Through the redlitten windows see
[08:15.77] Vast forms that move fantastically
[08:22.60] To a discordant melody
[08:27.73] While, like a ghastly rapid river,
[08:34.50] Through the pale door
[08:39.41] A hideous throng rush out forever
[08:46.12] And laugh but smile no more.
ti: The Haunted Palace
ar: Sopor ternus the Ensemble of Shadows
al: Poetica
[01:07.50] In the greenest of our valleys
[01:11.79] By good angels tenanted
[01:18.49] Once a fair and stately palace
[01:23.57] Radiant palace, reared its head
[01:30.89] In the monarch thought' s dominion
[01:37.94] It stood there
[01:42.71] Never seraph spread a pinion
[01:47.57] Over fabric half so fair.
[02:26.30] Banners yellow, glorious, golden
[02:33.31] On its roof did float and flow,
[02:39.20] This, all this, was in the olden time long ago
[02:50.58] And every gentle air that dallied
[02:57.17] In that sweet day
[03:02.13] Along the ramparts plumed and pallid
[03:09.42] A winged odor went away.
[03:43.98] Wanderers in that happy valley
[03:50.90] Through two luminous windows saw
[03:55.71] Spirits moving musically
[04:01.29] To a lute' s welltuned law
[04:07.75] Round about a throne where sitting
[04:14.47] Porphyrogene!
[04:19.57] In state his glory wellbefitting
[04:26.43] The ruler of the realm was seen.
[05:27.50] And all with pearl and ruby glowing
[05:33.10] Was the fair palace door
[05:38.11] Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
[05:43.96] And sparkling evermore
[05:49.91] A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
[05:57.10] Was but to sing
[06:03.59] In voices of surpassing beauty
[06:09.53] The wit and wisdom of their king.
[07:10.59] But evil things in robes of sorrow
[07:17.55] Assailed the monarch' s high estate
[07:21.73] Ah, let us mourn! for never morrow
[07:27.69] Shall dawn upon his desolate !
[07:33.96] And round about his home the glory
[07:40.63] That blushed and bloomed
[07:45.14] Is but a dimremembered story
[07:52.20] Of the old time entombed.
[08:04.80] And travellers, now, within that valley
[08:10.41] Through the redlitten windows see
[08:15.77] Vast forms that move fantastically
[08:22.60] To a discordant melody
[08:27.73] While, like a ghastly rapid river,
[08:34.50] Through the pale door
[08:39.41] A hideous throng rush out forever
[08:46.12] And laugh but smile no more.
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