Nemesis Lyrics

Through the guarded gateways of slumber
Past the wan-moon abysses of night

I have lived over my lives without number
I have sounded all things with my sight
I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak
Being driven to madness with fright

I have whirled with the earth at the dawning
When the sky was a vaporous flame
I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim

I'd drifted over seas without ending
Under sinister grey-clouded skies
That the many-forked lightning is rending
That resound with hysterical cries

Nemesis — through the ages
Nemesis — Erebus rages

I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted
The jewel-deck'd throne by the Nile
I was old in those epochs uncounted
When I and I only, was vile

Nemesis — through the ages
Nemesis — Erebus rages

Down the infinite aeons
Come beating the wings
of unmerciful gloom