Peter Hammill - "The Sleeper" lyrics

Roderick Usher The lady sleeps. oh, may her sleep which is enduring so be deep! Heaven hold her in its sacred keep! This chamber changed for one more holy, this bed for one of melancholy. I pray to God that she may lie forever with unopened eye while the dim, sheeted ghosts go by. My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her sleep as it is lasting so be deep! Soft may the worms around her creep! Far in the forest, dim and old, now may some tall vault enfold her; some vault that oft hath flung its black and winged panels fluttering back triumphant o'er the crested palls of her grand family funerals....