lucifer

elend’in 1995 tarihli lecons de tenebres albümünden...

nominem tuum despicamur, denegamus nostram originem.
spiritus domini atque verba deceptoris preces perdiderunt.
at once, he views
the dismal scenery waste and wild,
a dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
flam’d ; and there the pale light
served only to discover sights of woe.
regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
and rest can never dwell ; hope never comes,
that comes to all ; but torture without end
still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
with ever-burning sulpur unconsum’d.

--"thou, profoundest hell,
receive thy new possession ;
one who can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,
he whom thunder hath made greater!
i am lucifer."

[english translation of two first lines:]

we despise your name, we deny our origin.
the spirit of the lord and the treacherous words have lost their curse.