Night - roiling dense and dark,
the aftermath of day,
smoldered across half this world
and Shadow lost her way
She fused into the inky black
stealing through the wild
and vanished swooping from the land
where lurid unlight smiled.
But as the rayless fog advanced
its restless step was halted
and in the midst of sooty gloom
a flash of light exhalted!
A gleam, a tiny golden spark,
a radiant piece of day
It tore the shroud of night aside
and Shadow came out to play
Leaping, swaying, soar and surge
vast as the light expanse
and now! as tiny as can be,
in her merry Shadow dance.
But the spark burst forth in radiance
so brilliant to behold
and Shadow faded once again
consumed by luminance bold
