Zelia Lyrics - Ataraxia

No rays from the holy heaven come down 

on the long night time of that town 

But light from out the lurid sea 

streams up the turrets silently 

Gleams up the pinnacles far and free 

Gleams up the pinnacles far and free 

Up domes - up spires - up kingly halls 

Up fanes - up Babylon - like walls 

up shadowy long-forgotten bowers 

up sculptured ivy and stone flowers 

up shadowy long-forgotten bowers 

up sculptured ivy and stone flowers 

up many and many a marvellous shrine 

whose wreathed friezes interwine 

the viol, the violet and the vine 

the viol, the violet and the vine 

[Edgar Allan Poe]