Lugubrum - The Great Dressler lyrics

the spectre rose in pain a shadow brown , obscure and vast like a statue of lead bent by its fall from the high Totem the dolorous shadow rose its cry pierced the skies and drove the birds from heaven like rats into hell the mountain devoured the sun swilled down its golden rays born deep in the Baltic wild white as an angel this enormous child twas its soul which bore us fright Brown , as if beraeved of light