Oh goddess Sister of night Mother of life Guardian of time To you i raise my voice For i have walked in darkness Through vales of pain And i drank from springs of tears
Let my body burst into blossom again Of flourishing beauty Or bury me deep in mother earth
Let my eyes be passionate messengers again Of my undying love for her Or close them forever
Let my lips drink from hers again The enrapturing liqueur of desire Or seal them forever
Let my soul touch hers again Oh, let her heart yearn for mine once more Or drown me forever in the sea of oblivion
Let her love be inflamed for me again In deepest passion and lust Or burn me on the pyre of unfulfilled desire
May out of this darkness arise a new dawn Or let these words be my epitaph...