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Epistle No​.​81

from Of Empires Forlorn by While Heaven Wept

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Lyrics and Music Traditional, Arrangement 2001

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Mark how our shadow, Mark Movits mom frere
One small darkness encloses
How gold and purple that shovel there
To rags and rubbish disposes

Charon beckons from tumultuous waves
Then trice this ancient digger of graves
For thee ne’er grapeskin shall glister
Wherefore my Movits come help me to raise
A gravestone over our sister

Even desirous and modest abode
Under the sighing branches
Where time and death, a marriage forebode
Twixt beauty and ugliness ashes

To thee ne’er jealousy findeth her way
Nor happiness footstep, swift to stray
Flitteth amid these barrows
E’en enmity armed, as thous seest this day
Piously breaketh her arrow

The little bell echoes the great bells groan
Robed in the door the precentor
Noisome with quirsters prayerful moan
Blesses those, who enter

The way to this templed city of tombs
Climbs amid roses yellowing blooms
Fragments of mouldering biers
Till black-clad each mourner his station assumes
Bows there deeply in tears

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from Of Empires Forlorn, released February 14, 2003
Composed By: Traditional

Arranged By: Tom Phillips

Co-arranged By: Jim Hunter

Performed By: Jason Gray – Drums
Jim Hunter – Bass
Scott Loose – Guitars
Tom Phillips – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards

with contributions from:

Kevin “131” Gutierrez – Samples, Editing, and Effects
Michelle Loose – Additional Keyboards
Jake Bodnar – Additional Keyboards

Recorded By: Kevin 131 at Assembly Line Studios in Vienna, Virginia between February 2002 and June 2003

Produced By: Kevin 131, Tom Phillips, and Jim Hunter

Mastered By: Bill Wolf at Wolf Productions Inc., Falls Church, Virginia in December 2002 and July 2003

Published By: Vast Music Lachrymose, LLC

Copyright 2002, 2010, 2015 Vast Music Lachrymose

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While Heaven Wept Woodbridge, Virginia

While Heaven Wept has existed in various forms since 1989 and co-founding guitarist/composer Tom Phillips has been the one constant for the past 30 years. Since the beginning, there has been a wide range of influences, transcending forms, styles, and genres from epic metal to kosmiche musik, prog to neo-romanticism. ... more

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