Agalloch-----Falling Snow

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The water pours its embracing arms

around the stone

Decay drips from the unquiet void

where the ice forms, where life ends

The stone is by the crimson flood, swallowed

The red tide beyond the ebon wound, contorted

My sacrifice bids farewell in this river of memory...

a wave to end all time

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Red birds escape from my wounds

and return as falling snow

To sweep the landscape;

a wind haunted, wings without bodies

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The snow, the bitter snowfall

You wish to die in her pale arms,crystalline,

to become an ode to silence

In the soul of a mountain of birds, fallen

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The cascading pallor.....

of ghostless feather..

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The snow has fallen and raised this white mountain

on which you will die and fade away in silence

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