Rejoice, for tonight it is a world that we bury! Have you beheld the darkness sitting upon the earth Overshadowing the wind rose, lost in the smoke? Thus many went astray at once The others wandered hazardously though endless mazes The rays of the sun whisper of a newborn fright And very few horrors in the world could match in terror The cruelty of that frozen caress and its fragrant secret in blossom Thy bend their tongues with a long drawn sigh Licking among the vilest ordure a few drops of hopeful water They bend their tongues for this divine balm Remains of an aborted covenant gone astray in desert waste The bleak sterility of these buds belies their fragrance A pestilence that permeates the vastest plains with frightful odors Among these foetid marshes wanes the echo of a promise Hope stumbles amidst the solitary shades and lose substance Facing the glowing darkness whilst ravens croak for doom The other worlds on high sent us a harbinger Ignis ardéns – He breathed on them And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Assailli par les myriades fourmillantes des phosphenes célestes On se recueillait dans le silence de son depart