Dying alone, silence breaks In shifting moonlight A sleeping sorrow awakes Tortured heart, lead me away Before darkness is embraced All soils of the land Worms shall cover them Lice in man, and in beast All flesh shall perish together And man shall turn again unto dust Thou shook off the dirt and came into the mire Servants take pleasure in stones Whose foundation is in the dust Which are crushed before the moth Sanctioned here warm in spirit Yet bones full of sin Entwined from where wrath has been Out of the ground be risen Formed beast of the shield All fowl of the air and field Lo, those windswept shores blow so far Hammered deep, ruthless gusts of might And signs of wonder, and signs of cruel rebirth Engulfing the suffering Darkened seas collide Crashing forth under stars of brooding lives that dwelled before Their souls, long since withered Are still in my hands Calls of unseen grief Like a mirror of the sky Sanctioned here warm in spirit Yet bones full of sin Entwined from where wrath has been Out of the ground be risen Formed beast of the shield All fowl of the air and field Lo, those windswept shores blow so far Hammered deep, ruthless gusts of might And signs of wonder, and signs of cruel rebirth Darkened seas collide