...about the darkest of Nights Hark... shadow to shadow Hasten to evolve through the moist And mount the penumbrant dusk Moon about in meadows prun'd So scotch, not kill About the darkest of Nights Thus hark... Sunset, Dusk, Nightfall Whatever that shadows through horizons Lull'd in midnight communion scatter'd "Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the need of some melodious tear" Beneath waning Selene white above Dancing wolves ominous through the hunt And Diana leads with the Night as mask Blazing teeth embrace Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Hark...the dusk is singing Darkness stir as the crescent Moon shines full Hediond Banshees of few too many Riding out of Inferno's zenith Swallowing life with ominous incens'd chants With burnt robes and shrines made o' skin Let nature's heart rejoioce with the warmth of blood Of bleeding lambs pierc'd by wolven teeth ...and the shadow caresses Hark... the sombre light The malice Shadow, caressing shadow It is Death herself Leading Armmageddon sublime Dwell, at the brightening gloom In height or depth Horizont in black of the clouds that gather In madrigal Nightfall Banded against the throne Hark... thus hark Shadow, caressing shadow About the darkest of Nights And hark Majestic frost in contrast With summer's noontide air Bloom Chaos throughout the breeze And shadow, Shadow the darkest of Nights