A sorcerous existence aloft times innuendo Erect on pinnacled powers crescendo Endowed with longing for immemorial allure A nigh-forgotten vestal grace bestowed death premature In the despondency of my craft absolute I'll claim her back from 'neath cypress root And venture descent down gulfs of crepuscular depths Traversed, but by souls cursed, hellbound and unwept By blood offering and commune ith the render of veils Revealed was the dire path that leads on though the hells Armed with resolve and hexian tools of the trade A lone figure transcended the threshold of this stygian arcade He endured tribulations of deathfiends vexed Journey to ill-omened bottom ordealic perplexed But at last his abysmal course took an end In a place angels fear tread and legend portend Cacophined by etheric familiars croon Ensnared and absolved through blazing rune Divulgations of necromantic revelations stargazed Thundered the towering domes of charnel caves With wizards shrewd, guile and cunning Encircled by bloodsourced philtres bubbling Amidst pentacular conjured preserve Fabric of sepulchral reality was curved Exempt from soil by cryptic From death's repose a spectral Venus stirs As a blaze born on Hadean night With skin of graven marble and eyes bright lazurite A vision returned from beyond the grave To an abandoned soul which longing gave A geas to a realm unshoned by Praesepe For here to reside forever in phantom shaded matrimony