Perseverance - A Silent Rose In Voiceless Bloom lyrics

[Music by Rhys Mathew, Lyrics by Gareth Sansom] [Doctor:] Naomi, a child of God's good grace A testament to patient faith This fragile orphan life exposed To patricide and violent overthrow Such is the modern world's incline That beauty and adversity are fated meet We are committed and we are bound By both virtue and oath Sworn to pursue a hope, elusive: Closure for a troubled soul And peace where only sadness has been known [Narrator:] As season wax and yearly wane So time was pa**ed, our child she grew From timid youth, through timid years A silent rose in voiceless bloom No utterance, no word she spoke In spite of the gentlest confidence And when descended winter's snow Upon her thirteenth year So August's ghost Shed softly sheets of frost Turning tragically aside her vigilance Let it never be said That those darkest shades of horror rest Merely they wait with a tireless composure For an unchecked window Through which to visit their wicked wills Upon the pure One shadow such, a ghoul, a tempest fierce With a hateful mind and hollow soul Oppressed behind eyes of the coldest malevolence Would stalk the halls of Beechworth with impunity Twisted through choice; he rots from within Appearing to the waking world naught Save a shell to be fleshed And a beast to be unleashed So restraint will fail it seems In the presence of opportunity And never the twain shall meet Never the twain shall meet..