Psalm of Eulogy Lyrics

He committed to his journal,
Things so bleak but true,
That we commit now to the fire.
O the LORD has taken you!
Angels claim thee, Christoph,
And bear thee from this earth.
May it suffer from thy absence
As it suffered from thy birth.

How we rue the day You took him, O LORD.
We rend our clothes and cry.
We gnash our rotten teeth, O LORD,
And hurl curses to the sky.
Angels claim thee, Christoph,
And take thy soul on high.
May you fill Saint Peter's tome
With haunted visions from thy mind.

We lay thy body gently
Under weeping cypress tree.
And as the insects took dominion, LORD,
We sang our psalm of thee.
Angels claim thee, Christoph!
Set thee in the hand of God.
May the ashes of thy journal,
Like your body, reek and rot.

Angels claim thee, Christoph,
And bear thee from this earth.
May it suffer from thy absence
As it suffered from thy birth.