Imperial Walls

by Peter Hammill

From the album: pH7

Track 9 of 11 on pH7 (1979).

Duration: 5:00

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Lyrics for Imperial Walls

Strange to behold is the stone of this wall broken by fate. The strongholds are bursten, the work of giants decaying; the roofs are fallen, the towers are tottering, mouldering palaces roofless, weather-marked masonry shattering. Shelters time-scarred, tempest-marred, undermined of old. Earth's grasp holdeth its mighty builders tumbled, crumbled, in gravel's harsh grip till a hundred generations of men pass away. Till a hundred generations of men pass away, Till a hundred generations of men pass away.

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