Austere Antarctica lyrics

There, standing in majesty

The castles and palaces

In regal manner illusionary

Visible across the fields

Of frigid blowing snows

By day's light unwarming

By night's, stillness unyielding

The flowing white carpets

Stretch out to the sea

Through grand corridors

Carved through eons passing

Rivers that flow oh, so slow

As if to stand forever still

They sculpt the kingdom there

The few that frequent here

Find an austere realm e'er

Compassion is true sacrifice

In an empire so wondrous

Life thrives in fierce cold

The troubles are numerous

Often another day n'er comes

Beneath the starry heavens

In the embittered squalls

This dominion accommodating

Between the phases of water

In a world where it all ends

To simply fall to sleep here

Is to quickly vanish away