A Neo-Goth instrumental with the voice of Vincent Price supplying suitably haunting words. The words are part of the poem, 'Hymn To Intellectual Beauty', written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.
poetry
goth
moody
sombre
Story behind the song
1816 was a year without a Summer. Due to a gigantic volcanic eruption in the Far East, the world experienced a 'Volcanic Winter'... manifest in a Summer of constantly overcast, cloudy skies, rain, un-seasonably low temperatures and snow, A very gloomy and 'Goth' atmosphere.
Lyrics
Hymn To Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1816)
(lines taken from this poem, are not in the original order of the poem)
The day becomes more solemn and serene
when noon is past.
...whate'er, these words cannot express...
While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts,
and sped through many a listening chamber,
cave and ruin, and starlight wood.
With fearful steps pursuing hopes of high talk
with the departed dead.
I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed;
I was not heard; I saw them not;
When musing deeply on the lot of life,
at that sweet time when winds are wooing.
All vital things that wake to bring
news of birds and blossoming,
Sudden ... thy shadow fell on me;
I shrieked ... and clasped my hands in ecstasy!
I vowed that I would dedicate my powers
to thee and thine: have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours,
.... Each from his voiceless grave ....
[ Instrumental interlude ]
While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts.
The day becomes more solemn and serene
when noon is past.
Whom, spirit fair, thy spells did bind to fear himself.