The Soundless Music Of The Lake - Põhjast

I came to rest beside a placid lake

I’d run all night, and then I had to stop

At daybreak, when my strength had given out

Awearily down to my knees I sank

Fear crippled me and darkness I foresaw

Yet faint I was, too powerless to rise

Alas, sick fascination forced my eyes

To look into the dark, enthralling deeps

There did I see a thing, a pallid face

That stared at me with horrid, rictus grin

Cold eyes and sneering maw, it ghastly lurked

I felt it was inhuman, felt its wrath

Of course I knew this beast, I knew it well

— it was the very one that I had fled

It beckoned me and I held out my hand…

Lake’s surface rippled once and then stood still