The dark descends heavy as lead

The dark descends heavy as lead,

in deathly grays the dawn

is colour'd and formed.

No sound disturbs the deathly silence,

the forest is like a black wall

built to heaven itself.

Into immense desolate emptiness

my life stretches on hopelessly.

So hollow and cold as the grave

blows the breath of this night on me,

what dread creeps on me here,

o I must sleep, I will sleep soon.