Apples and silver bear the trees of paradise Visions of heaven to unfold    before our eyes Where cherry orchards bloom eternal summer's night Upon    a sarcen stone we dreamed Our sweet old lies      And into the dreams bewitched We'd hear the haunting song That beckoned    us to taste Of the dark of unripe dawn      If pride doth go before the fall The summer never was Promises gilded    and hollow No longer do bind us All knowing and all wise      We'll exit Eden By the sunrise      As pestilence falls down as rain upon our heads Still paved with gold    become the roads that we now tread Covered with sores and drunk with plain    mortality We have no thing so dear we couldn't Part with and leave      And if plague and hail they say May purge a righteous man Tears wept in    anger Shall be wiped away By the Devil's hand      If pride doth go before the fall The summer never was Promises gilded    and hollow No longer do bind us All knowing and all wise      We'll exit Eden By the sunrise      (All sacred secrets and serpents Grow old and tangled in shadows coiled    Under bridges over Alpheus stream Carrying their dust on to the sea)