Half sunk, a shatter'd visage liesâ¦. 1  Here the traveler begins his speech. He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. 2  Those legs are huge (vast) and trunkless.. Trunkless means without a torso, so it's a pair of legs with no body.
Beds Are Burning-Midnight Oil. Lyrics. Out where the river broke. The bloodwood and the desert oak. Holden wrecks and boiling diesels. Steam in forty five degrees. The time has come. To say fair's fair. To pay the rent. To pay our share.
While it has been commonly known as part of Nights in White Satin with no separate credit on the original LP, Late Lament was given its own listing on the two-LP compilation This Is The Moody Blues in 1974 and again in 1987 (without its parent song) on another compilation, Prelude.