Overlord

Lyrics - Bliss Carman (1861-1929)

Music - Castalia

Castalia's experiences in ceremonial magic inspired this song.

Carman penned this poem around 1902, expressing the awareness that humans are the breath, will and whim of the nature dieties. In these lyrics we can see that without the gods, we don't exist. Without us, they can't express.

"I am the flame that burns in the heart of every man, and in the core of every star. I am life, and the giver of life. Yet therefore is the knowledge of me knowledge of death".

Lord of the grass and hill,
Lord of the rain,
White overlord of will,
Master of pain,
I who am dust and air,
Blown through the halls of death,
Like a pale ghost of prayer, -
I am thy breath.

Lord of the blade and leaf,
Lord of the bloom,
Sheer overlord of grief,
Master of doom,

Lonely as wind or snow,
Through the vague world and dim,
Vagrant and glad I go;
I am thy whim.

Lord of the storm and lull,
Lord of the sea,
I am thy broken gull,
Blown far alee.

Lord of the harvest dew,
Lord of the dawn,
Star of the paling blue
Darkling and gone,

Lost on the mountain height
Where the first winds are stirred
Out of the wells of night
I am thy word.

Lord of the haunted hush,
Where raptures throng,
I am thy hermit thrush,
Ending no song.

Lord of the frost and cold,
Lord of the north,
When the red sun grows old
And day goes forth,

I shall put off this girth, -
Go glad and free,
Earth to my mother earth,
Spirit to thee.

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