In Arcadia Ego Lyrics - Deggael - Babylon Whores

In Arcadia ego 

Twisted the rose did grow 

Sucked up the sap of this world 

Blood red the petals pearled 

With some wisdom absurd 

And outside these walls 

The night took the rose 

Bound it with moonlight 

And cut it up with the morning star 

In Arcadia ego 

A rose to drown in snow 

A sepulchre by the sea 

Marble to slumber beneath 

Lulled by a mountain stream 

And outside these walls 

The night knows us all 

In dark woods wandering 

Detached of our soul 

"Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride 

Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom 

All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes 

Our Father Rosicross sleeps in his tomb" 

(W.B.Yeats, Frater D.E.D.I.) 

In Arcadia ego 

How fast the years did go 

And how bitter is the wind 

Blowing from shores of Arcady 

Outside these walls 

The night knows us all 

In dark woods the roses grow 

In hardship the soul