Mad Song

The wild winds weep

   And the night is a-cold;

Come hither, Sleep,

   And my griefs infold:

But lo! the morning peeps

   Over the eastern steeps,

And the rustling birds of dawn

The earth do scorn.

Lo! to the vault

   Of paved heaven,

With sorrow fraught

   My notes are driven:

They strike the ear of night,

   Make weep the eyes of day;

They make mad the roaring winds,

   And with tempests play.

Like a fiend in a cloud,

   With howling woe,

After night I do crowd,

   And with night will go;

I turn my back to the east,

From whence comforts have increas'd;

For light doth seize my brain

With frantic pain.