Nachtgeblüt - Madrigalia

Music: Nachtgeblüt - Madrigalia
Illustration: Edmund Blair Leighton - Faded Laurels
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Madrigalia

Spirits oppressed in doleful dreariness,
souls imprisoned in a sordid daily sham,
minds poisoned with vapid decadence,
broken wings trampled in the herd's fetid muddy tracks.

Winds arise in the night's blue horizon,
their nocturnal madrigals enchant the skies;
exhumed works of forgotten lore and art
cleanse the soul from the canker of mundane empty life.

(Lead guitar quotes from the ‘Passacaglia in G minor’,
by Georg Friedrich Händel.)

Evoking long gone days of ancient times,
enthralled by the agonizing verse of yore,
obscure threnodies and majestic ayres,
dying echoes of an olden age forever lost.

Voices of time-buried poets haunt the ear,
words full of meaning shake the dormant mind,
the spirit roves through lost summits of dead art
searching the soul of the past for this world has none.

But the sun of present day rises once more,
rhyme slowly fades, noble values disappear,
the abhorred modern world holds the reins again:
the spell of the night-wind's choirs is sorely fled.