Song Of Maelduin

There are veils that lift, there are bars that fall, There are lights that beckon and winds that call-- Goodbye! There are hurrying feet, and we dare not wait; For the hour is on us, the hour of Fate, The circling hour of the flaming Gate-- Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

Fair, fair they shine through the burning zone, Those rainbow gleams of a world unknown-- Goodbye! And oh, to follow, to seek, to dare, When step by step in the evening air Floats down to meet us the cloudy stair-- Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

The cloudy stair of the Brig o’ Dread Is the dizzy path that our feet must tread-- Goodbye! O all ye children of Nights and Days That gather and wonder and stand at gaze, And wheeling stars in your lonely ways-- Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

The music calls and the Gates unclose, Onward and upward the wild way goes-- Goodbye! We die in the bliss of a great new birth. O fading phantoms of pain and mirth, O fading loves of the old green Earth, Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!