King Of The Woods

[Bonus Track] Solsticial The lake is as a mirror For the moon That shimmers high above The sacrificial Lamb becoming clearer Soon shall be Just a shave that craved her love Arician oaks cloak the sacred grove Wherein her priest Awaits to greet His successor to this ancient throne The King Of The Woods Stands staunchest guard O'er the golden bough In the eldritch haunts of Nemi where I rake the fecund dells to take his crown Midsummer night grows pensive On the murder to befall The incumbent fright defensive Against my intense intent to rule Divine right by the bravest slave To perpetuate the flame To ascend to watch blest vestals bathe Where their temple bares Diana's name The King Of The Woods Rex Nemorensis Cleaves the gilded tree And accepts the sentence of the God To rest his kindred spirit free The Queen Of The Stars Alights to earth And from the silvered water's edge She means to take me in her arms But favours fulsome forest beds instead Communion with heaven The Goddess of the wild countryside An Egeria and Virbius We pleasure endeavour Together we ride I show my face, the lustrous one And by my grace, all men undone Fall neath my spell to fell delights This one I chose, I froze on sight Come sow me, mould me thy seed So I might grow to Spring's relief Fulfill the circle's ritual needs Untold delights, twelve months to be Torches draw me from this reverie Where maids debauch me reverently And when night dissolves, I self-absolve Mounting my days with fate's resolve Now Deep in the coals of my soul A hot tongue flickers A reign for her flame to unfold Before the hunt quickens Death's bow