Halls and Chambers - Falconer

Victims of the renascence might

Screamed in the dead of night

The horror, the terror

Ruler in Machiavellian days

Stole all their days away

To darkness, to sadness

I still see painful eyes

I still hear distant sighs

Among shadows lingering on

Gaze up high into the open sky

From these halls and chambers

To the moon and to the winds I cry

Soul’s aglow in the darkest of hue

Miseries are still undue

Forever and ever

I caress the thickening air

And all memories it bear

With yearning and longing

Far behind these castle walls

Glories and virtues fall

Fall for the lunacy

Deep inside where the time weep

Tyranny is fast asleep

In shadows, in echoes

Dim is the day for grim and the grey

As destiny’s proven unfair

Fair as a fay is the dawning of the day

At which I forlornly do gaze