The Eldritch Dark

Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Closes with night's accomplished certainty, A wizard wind goes crying eerily, And on the wold misshapen shadows crawl, Miming the trees, whose voices climb and fall, Imploring, in Sabbatic ecstacy, The sky where vapor-mounted phantoms flee From the scythed moon impendent over all.

Twin veils of covering cloud and silence, thrown Across the movement and the sound of things, Make blank the night, till in the broken west The moon's ensanguined blade awhile is shown.... The night grows whole again....The shadows rest, Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings.