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lirik lagu sir cedric hardwicke - while i was seated in a rocky cave

while i was seated in a rocky cave
by the sea~side, perusing, so it chanced
the famous history of the errant knight
recorded by cervantes, these same thoughts
beset me, and to height unusual rose
while listlessly i sate, and, having closed
the book, had turned my eyes toward the wide sea
on poetry and geometric truth
and their high privilege of lasting life
from all internal injury exempt
i mused, upon these chiefly: and at length
my senses yielding to the sultry air
sleep seized me, and i passed into a dream
i saw before me stretched a boundless plain
of sandy wilderness, all black and void
and as i looked around, distress and fear
came creeping over me, when at my side
close at my side, an uncouth shape appeared
upon a dromedary, mounted high
he seemed an arab of the bedouin tribes:
a lance he bore, and underneath one arm
a stone, and in the opposite hand a sh~ll
of a surpassing brightness. at the sight
much i rejoiced, not doubting but a guide
was present, one who with unerring sk!ll
would through the desert lead me; and while yet
i looked and looked, self~questioned what this freight
which the new~comer carried through the waste
could mean, the arab told me that the stone
(to give it in the language of the dream)
was “euclid’s elements;” and “this,” said he
“is something of more worth;” and at the word
stretched forth the sh~ll, so beautiful in shape
in colour so resplendent, with command
that i should hold it to my ear. i did so
and heard that instant in an unknown tongue
which yet i understood, articulate sounds
a loud prophetic blast of harmony;
an ode, in passion uttered, which foretold
destruction to the children of the earth
by deluge, now at hand. no sooner ceased
the song, than the arab with calm look declared
that all would come to pass of which the voice
had given forewarning, and that he himself
was going then to bury those two books:
the one that held acquaintance with the stars
and wedded soul to soul in purest bond
of reason, undisturbed by sp~ce or time;
the other that was a god, yea many gods
had voices more than all the winds, with power
to exhilarate the spirit, and to soothe
through every clime, the heart of human kind
while this was uttering, strange as it may seem
i wondered not, although i plainly saw
the one to be a stone, the other a sh~ll;
nor doubted once but that they both were books
having a perfect faith in all that passed
far stronger, now, grew the desire i felt
to cleave unto this man; but when i prayed
to share his enterprise, he hurried on
reckless of me: i followed, not unseen
for oftentimes he cast a backward look
grasping his twofold treasure.—lance in rest
he rode, i keeping pace with him; and now
he, to my fancy, had become the knight
whose tale cervantes tells; yet not the knight
but was an arab of the desert too;
of these was neither, and was both at once
his countenance, meanwhile, grew more disturbed;
and, looking backwards when he looked, mine eyes
saw, over half the wilderness diffused
a bed of glittering light: i asked the cause:
“it is,” said he, “the waters of the deep
gathering upon us;” quickening then the pace
of the unwieldly creature he bestrode
he left me: i called after him aloud;
he heeded not; but, with his twofold charge
still in his grasp, before me, full in view
went hurrying o’er the illimitable waste
with the fleet waters of a drowning world
in chase of him; whereat i waked in terror
and saw the sea before me, and the book
in which i had been reading, at my side

- lirik lagu sir cedric hardwicke

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