The Well is the second of Three Athonite Impressions from the seven movement song cycle entitled Athos EthosLYRICS: A well springs from the ancient depth  │ As liquid diamond flows in echoed darkness the earth’s whispered tears have quenched the hungry thirsts for ever with transparent milk.│ Men, who believed their star was fixed, drank deep from the wet vein, the silver slit that cracked open the space of mother planet’s womb sated them all.│Man in his impotent foolishness supplied idiot strength, the jewel of the mind did not teach him true humility.│That crumbling well the wisdom of just continuing in perpetuity, majestic in its own loud silent depth.│ We who are here as weak as crumbling mortar and ancient brickwork surrounding the structure,│ The walls surrounding it our walls – this opening…│ We crumble and age as we climb the Athonite ridge, │An animal’s back looming large, along it the well with its tears weeping for us, and our blind self-belief.│God sings for love and His mercy and His tears we sup…│ A well springs from the ancient depth │ As liquid diamond flows in echoed darkness the earth’s whispered tears, have quenched the hungry thirst for ever with transparent milk. [Anon.]