IN THE TIME OF EVIL STRONGHOLDS

Password slipped your memory?

Castle’s closed, become a cage,

Maiden sings on ramparts high,

Prisoner descries In Pace,

Groans to hear God’s lullaby.

Will you find the streams again,

Forest refuge, path, and plain,

River-bed where dawn appears,

Great big moon and evening stars?

Poison-fanged, a serpent springs,

Crushes man with coiling rings.

Maiden sighs amid the towers,

Setting sun lights up the spears,

Age of no return appears,

Leaps at man and overpowers,

Crushes him with coiling years.

Loves and seasons, charms of yore!

Snakes coil close on forest floor.