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Composed MMXIV-MMXV

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Hear, and I will tell a mystery.

There is a knowing we name light;
Darkness we name the unknowing.
Unweave the riddle if thou wilt:
Within the knowing dwelleth an unknowing.

Things known yet throb out mystery,
Rippling forth their secret selves, multitudinous.
Ineluctable as a sound,
Waves churn on the surface of the deep-cradled flood.

So with the light of knowing:
Once-secrets naked to the eye.
And thou despisest the light for it!
Sayest thou:

“Light would fain be the great leveler;
Light would stake and possess all,
Would let the feral blood from its deepest wells –
And so make a mausoleum of existence.
May it never be!”

O, how little thou understand’st!
Thou who searchest the life-depths,
Consider it:
There can be no mystery
But that there be premonition of an answer –
Else, the question be not asked.

Stand thou upon the high rock,
Fast above the deepest vale,
In the umbra before dawn –
In the shadow-heap, echo of the elder formless.

Behold as the first rays pour
Knowing fire into the gulf.
All revealed in that silent fury
Waketh new inquiry, unoccasioned ‘til this lambent hour.

Light, the revelator
Of mysteries inexhaustible.
"And the light shineth in the darkness;
And the darkness comprehended it not."

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from From Hallowed Cloaks of Night: Demos, MMXV​-​MMXVI, released August 3, 2019
Music by E.G.T.
Percussion by D.C.

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