As The Shadows Dance

<br>R: My eyes hold the eventide,<br>Thro` which I `hold naught else<br>But the raven;<br>Sleep my dearest ones -<br>Mind not the palling velvet darkness<br>LK: Albeit behind the eyes thou hast<br>A flame enshroudd in its blackness;<br>Burning without the faintest breeze.<br>Teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore<br>Thou by such angst mark`d art?!<br>R: Wherefore is here loneliness?;<br>Infinite hollowness<br>In which my thoughts echo,<br>To the shadows I whisper -<br>With the shadows I waltz -<br>Bear me; I am not the plague,<br>Altho` nightclad death ... mayhap?!<br>Dare not naysaying my grant;<br>Vanish with me abaft the unlight! -<br>O! the taste on thine lips;<br>A trickling deep red love -<br>Everlasting lightheartdness -<br>A kiss for thee my dear.<br>LK: Dance no longer with the shadows,<br>Dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard;<br>Dance with me the mephisto waltz.<br>Wedlock `twixt day and night -<br>Offer me relief fro the sunrays.<br>R: Ah! such delight I sense:<br>Savour the bitter grapes of life!<br>LK: Eternally and ne`erendingly;<br>A soulsister of thine I am.<br>Let me openly greet thy kiss;<br>The most loving and caring bites.<br>R: Grant me thineself!,<br>I bore the woe in my heart,<br>My heart was shatter`d into its tithe,<br>Save yet are its chambers in flood.<br>LK: As I depart embrace me,<br>And in paltry time will I re-awake -<br>I love thee.