Image from the surface of damnation One that only falsity could illuminate Captured in this dream I was, absorbed in thought And the only thing I heard was the clatter of goat Divine artificial insemination, a child for a virgin To provide a setting for this sinful display From closer I wanted to follow that play Of dancing flames and the pour of rain Without each the other could not be And that I was meant to witness Every time the fire was raging The rain lashed those flames
Every time the roots of earth were burned The water made them grow again A pond I saw and a swan with purest white cape No wings the creature bore and could not fly or escape On shore a wolf was waiting in the still of the night Like knowing that the pond will dry out in the sun light Flames grew and the ablaze burned all to ashes The swan swam to the shore The earth turned to gray, the sky bemoaned one's fate And before my eyes the new world rose