[00:00.00] 作词 : Lafcadio Hearn[00:00.40] 作曲 : 千谷友史[00:00.81]The moon had not yet risen[00:16.17]But the vast of the night[00:27.06]Was all seething with stars[00:37.95]And bridged by a Milky Way[00:49.80]Of extraordinary brightness[00:58.14]There was no wind[01:01.08]But the sea, far as sight[01:06.06]Could reach was running in ripples of fire[01:13.74]A vision of infernal beauty[01:19.89]Only the ripplings were radiant[01:25.59]Between them was blackness absolute[01:35.79]And the luminosity was amazing[01:41.46]Most of the undulations were yellow like candle-flame[01:48.66]But there were crimson lampings also[01:54.21]And azure, and orange, and emerald[02:00.33]And the sinuous flickering of all seemed[02:06.00]Not a pulsing of many waters[02:10.71]But a laboring of many wills[02:13.92]A fleeting conscious[02:16.83]And monstrous-a writhing and a swarming incalculable[02:23.49]As of dragon-life in some depth of Erebus[02:28.89]And life indeed was making the sinister splendor of that spectacle[02:40.35]But life infinitesimal[02:46.62]And of ghostliest delicacy[02:52.35]Life illimitable[02:57.78]Yet ephemeral, flaming and fading in ceaseless alternation[03:09.69]Over the whole round of waters[03:15.51]Even to the sky-line[03:21.15]Above which, in the vaster abyss[03:27.12]Other countless lights were[03:32.76]Throbbing with other spectral colors[03:37.86]Watching, I wondered and I dreamed[03:44.43]I thought of the Ultimate Ghost[03:49.98]Revealed in that[03:55.83]Scintillation tremendous of Night and Sea[04:01.47]Quickening above me[04:07.53]In systems aglow with awful fusion[04:13.32]Of the past dissolved[04:17.58]With vapor of the life again to be quickening[04:23.49]Also beneath me, in meteor-gushings[04:28.23]And constellations and nebulosities of colder fire[04:35.01]Till I found myself doubting whether[04:41.85]The million ages of the sun-star[04:48.00]Could really signify[04:53.79]In the flux of perpetual dissolution[04:59.58]Anything more than the momentary[05:03.78]Sparkle of one expiring noctiluca[05:15.42]Even with the doubt, the vision changed[05:27.81]I saw no longer the sea of the ancient East[05:39.24]With its shudderings of fire[05:44.76]But that Flood whose width and depth and altitude[05:49.50]Are one with the Night of Eternity[06:14.40]The shoreless and timeless Sea of Death and Birth