Beyond Land and Time

The Eclipse of All Eclipses

(Môhāgrôhôn)

Translated by Clinton B. Seely

Many a firm resolve, a hopeful hope burned out,

ashes brushed aside—

And perhaps that's the way it'll always be.

Will today's realities run their course

And be replaced by some new pervasive sense of things?

Man has lasted long upon this earth;

His shadow cast upon time's tracks

Is yet to dim. But, he stands in the desert

Like a tree, seemingly pointlessly.

Heart, home, the waters of life, all lost

Searching for meaningful success.

Love is no more. Its true instantiation in this vacuous world

Is an utter failure, like that of half-truths or that which is

not true at all.

From error into error,

From self-contempt to self-contempt—

The fact that man has moved on through the sun of an eclipse

Itself creates the eclipse that's everlasting.