(When Darkness Engulfs Daylight)
In days that are coming
Whose progress I cannot halt
Nor their march thwart by heavy arming
One day is to me truly sworn
To bring my life to an ending
Nearer and nearer it footstep draw
Its oath it has never broken
For all men born
It stays faithful to its cause
So when my life it deems full of term
Then wherever I'll be
In the air, land or sea, it shall come
Its shadow will be felt
When its heavy darkness engulfs daylight
I will have left, nay, taken
And only left behind an extinguished frame
One more stump
Where towering life once flourished but death felled.
