Verses for the Lamentations, to be sung at the Midnight Song: VII. On the Afterfeast of Malfaloth

Three verses.

When the Hunter clad in silver

Comes to war against the Darkness—

When the Lady, World’s First Mother

Break the hated charms of Orkon—

When the sorrows Under Starlight

Ended are—then comes the Morning.

When the Polestar from the Heavens

Blazing on the Northern seacoast

Comes to cast into the darkness

Orkon into deep abysses—

When the Song of Ages, ending,

Ends our sorrows, then comes rejoicing.

When the Hunter clad in silver

On the ramparts of the Heavens

Stands and casts down Margloth’s dragons—

When he slays the Beast of Midnight

With the arrows of his quiver—

Then the Children cease their weeping.