Welcome inside this coil, Mortal and proud, complicated gear, This diligent sweat smelt black toil, Barren and vain in it's petty fears Night comes down and captures them all... fall! Now in this noiseless dark air Sparks are glares and rustles are dins While the warm wind is swaying my hair A fright inauspitious begins: Here, under this omniscient still, Something intensely grows- No sound just thrill Night- bird of prey who gazed below In menacing shape, savagely Up on an eminence, quickly saw Prey that slept in it's fantasies Then apace Domineering one Finished the chase, Exulting in grim fun And flew to let the sun... Daylight gifted the rays of truth Rushing suddenly like a flood All the fowlers knew none of course They saw no traces but the blood A trifling, trifling epitaphic loss For those protecting life And for those, Endless those who raise the Christian Cross Against Conqueror Night