Sopor Aeternus - Eldorado

ELDORADO

[Text by edgar allan poe]



Gaily bedight

A gallant knight

In sunshine and in shadow

Had journeyed long

Singing a song

In search of eldorado



But he grew old-

This knight so bold-

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like eldorado



And, as his strength

Failed him at length

He met a pilgrim shadow-

"Shadow," said he

"Where can it be-

This land of eldorado?"



"Over the mountains

Of the moon

Down the valley of the shadow

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied-

"If you seek for eldorado!"