A Memorial

A Memorial - Winterfylleth

Thy possessions are all naught

Which on earth did you to men exhibit

Therefore shall it be than to thee

Than to thee were all earth's riches

Bestowed them for the Lord himself

Thou were at a beginning

A bird a fish in the sea

Or a beast of the earth

Traversing the fields

A brute without understanding

Yet in the waste of creatures

The fiercest there

Though thou were of worm the worst

Did you not become a man

And answer on that great day

When shall the sins be exposed

Then will all the world hear

The deeds of men

What will you there on doomsday say

When there shall be no joy

Then it shall go its way

Seek hell's abyss

Not heaven's joys

The dust shall be lie

Shall drink in swarms the carcass

Thirsty for corruption

The tongue be drawn asunder

Into ten parts

To the hungry ones for food

Not wisely in words converse

With the accursed ghost

To every man

As a memorial

Of mind sagacious

As a memorial

Of mind sagacious

As a memorial

Of mind sagacious