1. Before dawn's light I roamed
With breaths short and restless

2. A lamb bleating save to be eaten yesterday
It delighted in twilight and the twilight rain

3. Like a madman's gaze or one possessed
Until when after confinement

4. Twenty priestesses marched
Like Christians in yellow robes

5. There they were between four and five
Slain and bloodied, heads shorn

6. And wars that exhale anguish after misery
As though you dyed them with madder