Eldorado Lyrics - Sopor Aeternus

[text by Edgar Allan Poe] 

Gaily bedight, 

A gallant knight, 

In sunshine and in shadow, 

Had journeyed long, 

Singing a song, 

In search of Eldorado. 

But he grew old- 

This knight so bold- 

And o'er his heart a shadow 

Fell as he found 

No spot of ground 

That looked like Eldorado. 

And, as his strength 

Failed him at length, 

He met a pilgrim shadow- 

"Shadow," said he, 

"Where can it be- 

This land of Eldorado?"