Workshop of Telescopes
By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives,
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine,
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky.

By those who see with their eyes close,
They know me by my black telescope.

Your green tree mantle from which these things derive,
A lens of quartz and refract spoke that crystal lens,
Whose crystal rope once bound me to those
Doctors and wives.

When my vision was oh, so cloudy,
And I saw things through two eyes.

I am a sailor on the raging depths,
And I know a thing or two.
Back to the corner mates and over the side,
Yes I know a thing or two.

By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives,
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine,
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky.

By those who see with their eyes closed,
you'll know me by my black telescope.

Before my great conversion, when the ridge was closed,
Before my visit to the workshop of telescopes.

By silverfish imperetrix, whose incorrupted eye
sees through the charms of doctors and their wives,
By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine,
Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky.

By those who see with their eyes closed,
you'll know me by my black telescope.

on Blue Oyster Cult, 1972