© 2025 Arctellion All Rights Reserved Remix: Silvio Babe @silvio_babe [Verse 1] When I have heard small talk about great men, I climb to bed; light my two candles; then Consider what was said; and put aside What Such-a-one remarked and Someone-else replied. [Chorus] Oh, silent lamps, you shine within my mind, Though careless tongues leave precious thoughts behind. They speak of giants, yet their words fall flat, While deeper truths, true wisdom, linger at. [Verse 2] They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered. [Chorus] Oh, silent lamps, you shine within my mind, Though careless tongues leave precious thoughts behind. They speak of giants, yet their words fall flat, While deeper truths, true wisdom, linger at. [Bridge] How can they use such names and be not humble? The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said What these can only memorize and mumble. [Verse 3] How can they use such names and be not humble? I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered. The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said What these can only memorize and mumble. [Chorus] Oh, silent lamps, you shine within my mind, Though careless tongues leave precious thoughts behind. They speak of giants, yet their words fall flat, While deeper truths, true wisdom, linger at. [Outro]