Deus Absconditus: Part I

Sino me vivere, O, carnifex magnus

Let me live! O great tormentor!

For my life is but a passing shadow

My eyes are unable to see

What light may lie beyond this life

Let me make our brief and tortured lives

Seem beautiful and grand

For soon we will turn to dust

You will look upon this Erthe

And we will be gone

God of Ashes, King of Erthe

Given to a strange rebirth

Every man shall to him sing:

"Xanthochroid, our rightful King"

Deus Absconditus

God who is hidden from man

We, disciples of the north

Bring this vile carcass forth

No one comforts as he weeps

Simply drifting off to sleep