Proserpina (english) Songtext

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer Unto this wall, one instant and no more Admitted at my distant palace-door. Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here. Afar those skies from this Tartarean grey That chills me: and afar, how far away, The nights that shall be from the days that were. Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing Strange ways in thought, and listen for a sign; And still some heart unto some soul doth pine, (Whose sounds mine inner sense is faith to bring, Continually together murmuring,)- "Woe's me for thee, unhappy Proserpine!"