Eau de Nil

Now am I submerged Beneath the flood That floweth not Whence the wise once drank Their roads undone Their wells forgot This world would suffer like And take the draught Of bitter green And tears will salt the earth For what was once And might have been Helpless we sink in the mire The widening gyre That swallows without compassion A benediction of rot To cherish not It's visage hollow and ashen Flow, rivers of filth And drown a world that suffers none To rise against the grain And thereby unbalance the sum (Drown) the ivory towers The vision lost Beneath the waves And (leave a barren land) Where shallow minds Find shallow graves Helpless we sink in the mire The widening gyre That swallows without compassion A benediction of rot To cherish not It's visage hollow and ashen It is the fate of fools! Rise Rise, vile seas! Thrice accursed your tides Swell Swell endlessly Never to subside O Humanity Doomed to ape and crawl Surge Surge to collapse