Theatre of Tragedy - The Masquerader and Phoenix

Velvet Darkness They Fear (1996) track 9 Hist! - The sonorous orchestral ambience and the arabesque-stanc’d ballerina, Her wee feel in an alacritic maelstrom-twirl, And the dust-hurl with her tears blendeth - Egad! this quagmire; Pasteth her unaptly apt feet to the stage; Like the wither’d rose of the luciferous Eden By the mummer’d masquerader espied vigilly and mockingly, His behesting visage, tho’ ruddily mummmer’d ’tis - Embower’d and eddying oft and eft gloam by glo