Julius Caesar (Memento Hodié)

[Verse 1]

Amidst water lily fields, white and green

Grows a tree

And from the tree hang apples

Not for you to eat

In a way it matters more

Than it did before

To see the East voyaging through

True hearts of dunes

Mirth, birth, reverie

[Verse 2]

There in harmony

Somersault caravans of fools

As he passes for reply

To sing his songs again

He sways to kiss the horizontal ground

And from the ground a dove rises

And as a mark of honor

A mask is left behind

Mirth, birth, reverie

[Verse 3]

There in harmony

To gentle form and noble force

Calm and vast, his voice cascades

From his gentle stage

Calm and vast, the city lies

On a horizontal ground

Kind and calm, Julius lies

For Octavian to prevail

Mirth, birth, reverie

[Verse 4]

In harmony, traverses the peninsula

Aeolus with his whisper-winds to strike

With his gentle kisses

The righteous and wise

And doom ambitious praise with his will

His will and order

Mirth, birth, reverie

[Verse 5]

Amidst water lily fields, white and green

Grows a tree

And from the tree hang apples

Not for you to eat

Beneath the heaving sea

Where statues and pillars and stone altars

Rest for all these aching bones

To guide us far from energy

Mirth, birth, reverie