The Song of Siva + 

’T is Night; all the Sirens are silent, + 

All the Vultures asleep; + 

And the horns of the Tempest are stirring + 

Under the Deep; + 

’T is Night; all the snow-burdened Mountains + 

Dream of the Sea, + 

And down in the Wadi the River + 

Is calling to me. + 

’T is Night; all the Caves of the Spirit + 

Shake with desire, + 

And the Orient Heaven ’s essaying + 

Its lances of fire; + 

They hear, in the stillness that covers + 

The land and the sea, + 

The River, in the heart of the Wadi, + 

Calling to me. + 

’T is night, but a night of great joyance, + 

A night of unrest;⁠— + 

The night of the birth of the spirit + 

Of the East and the West; + 

And the Caves and the Mountains are dancing + 

On the Foam of the Sea, + 

For the River inundant is calling, + 

Calling to me. + 