1. Enshroud the gloom, enshroud the mist,
Enshroud obscurity, O cloud!

2. Enshroud the smoke of conscience
Scorched, enshroud, torment!

3. Enshroud ruin upon protectors
Of their ruin, enshroud punishment!

4. Enshroud the due of the builders
Of their graves, enshroud retribution!

5. Enshroud my cries, let your echo answer,
Enshroud, O devastation!

6. Enshroud upon the apathetic
Whose indolence bothers flies!

7. They know not the color of the sky
For their necks are so bent,

8. And for their heads so trampled
Like the dust, like the sand.

9. Enshroud upon the helpless meant
To be fodder for hunger’s greed!

10. Enshroud upon these downtrodden
Whose life even dogs disdain!

11. In each limb lurks a claw
For another limb, fang and bite!

12. Pus of disgrace flows
As if it were scented oils!

13. Enshroud upon the worms
That Your plains find too confining!

14. Enshroud upon these false faces
That are like lying portraits!

15. The silent lilies in them
No question, no answer.

16. Their eyes whirl mindlessly
As if a mirage teased them!

17. My heart is tired of conscience
And the soul clamors for reckoning!

18. Enshroud upon the divided
Whose plight separation worsens!

19. They boast their brothers
Are tried with torment!

20. They regret asking for less
Than their rights, so they repented,

21. And leaned toward the disgrace that eats their souls!
What an excellent resort!

22. Enshroud upon the pastures
Greased with melting fat,

23. Around them cows growl
And around stirs creeping vermin!

24. Enshroud until those who call on you
To fuel them are done!

25. Enshroud upon the pretentious
As pits subside!

26. Snorting, roaring,
Like conquering lions!

27. Sated on honey, distracted
From sublime goals by want!

28. Walking behind them slowly
Are mounts and riders!

29. When the circles of the inner folk
And the sincere ones meet,

30. Their shadows shudder, they weaken
From their softness and melt away!

31. They save their souls and leave
As fuel for the fire’s maw!

32. Enshroud the gloom, no dawn gleams,
No shooting star flickers!

33. Enshroud, under your sky
Are a people stricken with blindness!

34. Fearing blindness to light
No door from darkness opens!

35. Enshroud till resurrection day
When the count is complete!

36. Enshroud the gloom until the sloth
Of the forest people vomits darkness!

37. Bear the gloom until crows
Sick of blackness take wing!

38. Bear the gloom until they circle
In skies where hawks swoop down,

39. Angry that they have not nests
For hawks to brood!

40. Enshroud the gloom, let
Your shadow gently embrace disgrace and shame!

41. From your obscuring color come
Sanctimony, unease, and doubt!

42. You are refuge for the sinner, and
A pasture sheltering wolves!

43. You are one in whose blood
Daggers and swords were washed!

44. You are one whose evils
Seethe with creeping insects!

45. You are one who is too narrow
For the crawling reptiles!

46. Be a veil for the criminal who has
Cast off her crime and fled!

47. Enshroud, for where can she escape
If you recede and masks fall?

48. These are noble idiocies!
This is solidified hypocrisy!

49. The clay that nourishes it
Is scriptures and books!

50. Enshroud the gloom until they roam
Like Arab steeds!

51. These outrages claim lineage
From your darkness!

52. Enshroud, for you are to these immoralities
A robe when bare!

53. Enshroud, for you are to these fangs
A file when blunt!

54. Enshroud, for you are to these sins
Full vitality when withered!

55. Enshroud, for you are to a hue that if
It dyed would be makeup!

56. Be their veil, no dawn gleams,
No shooting star flickers!

57. Enshroud the gloom, enshroud the mist,
Enshroud obscurity, O cloud!