Lyric The masquerader and phenix

Hist! - The sonorous orchestral ambience and the
arabesque - stanc d ballerina
Her wee feet in an alacritic malstrom-twirl
And the dust-hurl with her tears blendeth -
Egag! 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 mummer d tis -
Embower d and eddying oft and eft gloam by gloam,
Her sweetness ne er cloy - further! further! -
His scratching and dallying hollow-hearted eyes
Her breasts and vestal heart caress,
And like the dove and bird of prey leapeth she aerily,
Whileas the orchestra playeth on travailingly;
His one and sole swath
With the pizzicato d ensemble blendeth -
And her umbral fatal scream -
As the song climaxeth
And slowly dieth
Away...