Universe, Arise! Lyrics


…and one by one the stars sunk in the dark;

In silence, slowly, worlds withered away.

The cosmos lay as wounded stag when hark

Backwards the dogs once slain they have their prey:

The deer, as before him descends the dark,

Salutes in tears the light of his last day;

When waned in silence his last cosmic spark

The universe bewailed his lot this way.

Alone sat in the middle of that night

A weeping god, the last one who survived,

and mourned his cosmos now dead and forlorn:

Forgotten’d be each tale, each deed and fight.

In tears he stabbed his heart and sacrificed…

And thus a new reality was born.