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Escaped to Endless Rest

from Where the Sea Gives Up Its Dead by Draugadróttinn

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On you the blast, surcharged with rain and snow
In winter's dismal nights no more shall beat
Unfelt by you the vertic Sun may glow
And scorch the panting Earth with baneful heat

No more the joyful maid, with sprightly strain,
Shall wake the dance to give yon welcome home;
Nor hopeless love impart undying pain,
When far from scenes of social joy you roam;

No more on yon wide watery waste you stray
While hunger and disease your life consume
While parching thirst, that burns without allay
Forbids the blasted rose of health to bloom

No more you feel Contagion's mortal breath
That taints the realms with misery severe
No more behold pale famine, scattering death
With cruel ravage desolate the year

The thundering drum, the trumpet's swelling strain
Unheard, shall form the long embattled line
Unheard, the deep foundations of the main
Shall tremble, when the hostile squadrons join

Since grief, fatigue, and hazards still molest
The wandering vassals of the faithless deep
Oh! happier now escaped to endless rest
Than we who still survive to wake and weep

Full oft the flattering marble bids Renown
With blazoned trophies deck the spotted name
And oft, too oft, the venal Muses crown
The slaves of vice with never-dying fame

Yet shall remembrance from Oblivion's veil
Relieve your Scene, and sigh with grief sincere
And soft Compassion at your tragic Tale
In silent tribute pay her kindred tear.

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from Where the Sea Gives Up Its Dead, released June 12, 2009
Lyrics - William Falconer

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