In the mind of God 

The dead sleeping lie 

And the little cogs though unmoving 

Hover over the turning wheel 

All life's a farce 

The broken bird is draped over the paths 

And paths and paths and paths 

And those who say this world is not 

The bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel 

Lie 

Opal and pearl bloodsocket castings 

Ruby jasmine jasper and onyx 

Chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown 

Golden green leafwork 

Scrolled with the farstars 

Pitted with the moonworlds 

Mother alldewey 

Arrayed with the twinkling lights 

The wovengold spungilded blinking godeyes 

The spearshafts of heaven 

The souldwelling rockhomes 

Are... 

Dormition and Dominion 

Dormition and Dominion 

The Mother is dead 

The Mother awakens 

Dormition 

She sleeps 

Dominion 

He rules 

She sleeps and rules 

In her starry bodied glory 

The Mother sleeps 

The Mother loves 

Dormition and Dominion 

I wait 

...Are the holders of the world and its dreams 

I say there is no death 

No death 

We have lived before and shall live again 

And again 

We have slept before and shall sleep again 

We have danced through the shallow pools 

And shall rejoice once again 

To those who say there is no hope 

I say liars 

Liars 

Liars you are 

Over the starry dancing stars 

There is a land 

Under the sweatribbed brow 

There is a land 

And this is the globed world of the Pantocrator 

Finally I have understood 

I have understood 

I have understood 

Though when I slip sleeping and silently 

From this ribbed room of sighs 

You shall not find the history of His personal visit 

Sewn into my linings perhaps 

Nevertheless I have understood 

Where the logician watches god hinge all on a die 

Nevertheless I have understood! 



That all this is the breathbetween moment 

Our eyeslids open and close 

Between is the land 

Between the time I first was accepted 

In between Your brightboned body 

Between then and there and the time You wept: 

"Goodbye my love goodbye to you" 

There there was the land 

In the pearls of our heart 

There is the immaculate heavenly loveland 

In the middle of the forest Acton is slain by his own hounds 

In the middle of the forestEustace meets the crisscross Stag 

There is the land he has reached paradise 

There is no death 

There is no death 

There as the stag turns and smiled loved 

There he was takencaught by the prey 

All the flowers are blossoming 

And all the world calls to you: 

"Dormition" - so you sleep 

"Dominion" - so you rule 

Dormition - oh You sleep, Mother 

Dominion - Father, You rule