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BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by                    
First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space
Last Line: Begins.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs


Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space to gladden
your sad face. Let no vain tears be shed. Clear as your soul are the skies.
Through dark oblivion strikes a sudden beam -- and death is all agleam.

Do not believe in death. The birds are freed from the cages of the dark and
silent wood where they so long were pent. Let no vain tears be shed, like your
soul the skies are singing. No longer are they mute. ----- And death is radiant!

Death stands before you luminous and singing, and it is life! In the calm an
angel dislodges the pearl of your soul amid the musical, radiant voices of
archangels.

They sing unheeded by this careless world that has forgot the splendour of man's
celestial home in skies afar. But faithful death has come. And the stars are
singing in the skies towards that remembered star.

And lo! the luminous end! Pure as your soul are the skies. Do not believe in
death. All tranquil is your face. Your soul is fresh as morning's first embrace.
Young as your soul are the skies.

And death is o'er and life at last shines clear, unrecognized before.
On every side bright souls appear forever luminous, purged from muddy sins, filling with splendor
all void of space. The other life was but a tempest's roar. Pure is your face --and happy life
begins.




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