Provocations of dawn                      aside 
 I'll not lift 
               hackle 
                      to abet 
        a moment 
                 of silence 

- 

     Lady sweet 
               roll 
      solemn 
            swayed 

      come 
            back 
     just 
          a dream! 

      come 
           back 
     just 
         a dream 

  solemn 
         swayed 
 Lady sweet 
            roll 

prudish 
        of death 
                 he sings 

             Instrument 
      avatar 
             play 

           ravage 
     rapine 
                    rescue 
            death 

            dream 

            song 
      so 
            stones soften 
      leaves 
             demur 
     sky 
     rests 
         
     Not a songster's 
           secret 
     brass 
           blessing 
                    chance 
     Not 
         valiant at the mark 
     
              next step 
                        not 
                            next step 
                                      not 
                        chance 
              open gate 

          see beauty behind you 
              lose it 
                      not 
              lose it 
                      not 

          Give up 
                    the rest 
                    at once 
                    for her 
no shame 
below 
                    the rest 
                    living 
                    a love story 
                   
                    remind life 
                    for 
                        her 
               this 
                    never done 
                              girl 
                    to know 
                            for 
                                  her 
                    just a girl 
                                 echo 
                         breath 
                                 echo 
                     not enough 
                         breath 
                                 echo 
                         song 
                     the long 
                              lament 

                                 echo 
                          to the deep 
                      unknowable 
                  tomorrowland 
                               signpost 
                          bearing 
                     Apollo's seal 
           against darkness 
- 
                         remind me 
     such ruins abate 
                         remind me 
          relics 

                     remind me 
          the torch 
                     harmony 

          remind me 
                     of life 
             not 
                 of life not 

             Song 
                    of light 
           remind 
                the damned 
                of life 
            not of life 
            not 
                to praise 
                          her 
             ruined cheek 

           new song 
                    unsung 
                 to praise 
                her 
             mineral truth 

     Awake Maestro 
                   intact 


     Phantom 
             wane 
                   not 
      flesh alone 
                  forgiving daylight 

     Awake Orphee 

           pennant 
                   whips 
                         the rain 


     Phantom 
             wain not 
                      real 

               unsung 

        for now's 
                  red ribbon 
                  fades 

     Awake Orphee 

                    moon late 
                              dawn pale 
                    dull wall 
        not ruin's 
                    replica 
           of love 
     fades 

     Awake Maestro 
                    stares 
                    stone through 
     phantom 
              dream dull 
     ashes 
            in his throat 

     Lute tongue slave 
                       sing 
               not 
                    replica 
               not 
                    beauty's 
                    relent 
               not 
                    love 
               not 
                    love 
              breaks 
                    free 

      Orphee groans 
                    on the hill 
             braced 
                    anchor 
               this pennant 
               landmark 
                 a just 
                 Orphee 
                        echo 

          turning back 
                       to sketch 
          not lost 
                   love 
               not 
          dull stone 
                     take song 
               of it 

               begin 
                      to sing 

          Apply 
                the muse 
       Scrutiny 
                    to such 
                ends 

      take mind 
                of it 
                      as she crosses 
         out of death 

                      Orphee 
                             draft 
              make 
                   this 
                        the answer 

              break 
                    the 
                        universe 

               sing her 
                        out of death