Dear Familiar Phantoms Lyrics - Singles - Mephisto Walz

Again you come he hovering forms 

I find as early to my clouded sight ye shone 

Shall I attempt this once to seize and bind ye 

Still o'er my heart is that illusion thrown 

Are we still standing 

Or if further we're ascending 

You crowd more near then be the reign assigned ye 

And sway me from your misty shadow zone 

My bosom thrills with youthful passion shaken 

From magic airs that round your march awaken 

All is turning... 

Trees and rocks with grinning faces 

All is whirling... 

Wandering lights that spin in mazes 

Of joyous days you bring the blissful vision 

The dear familiar phantoms rise again 

And like an old and half-extinct tradition 

Renewed is pain with mournful repetition 

First love returns with friendship in his train 

And names the good whose cheating fortune tore them 

Now life tracks his devious labyrinthe chain 

And left me to deplore them