• Twilight falls without warning.
    Wait until dawn, whispers the wind.
    Though the silence is loud and companionable,
    Frog's pond disagrees;

    The night grows darker,
    It seems misunderstood!
    With children a-wailing for hours...
    Oh! but Darkness!
    I do understand!
    I will go present you some pity.

    You see, Oh! Darkness!
    You cast great shadows and woe;
    But one thing I won't ever understand
    Is how childish-- (shudder)

    My lily! my lily!
    It was basking in Frog's pond!
    Now fills me with sorrow;
    Stiff as a board!

    Now now, stupid Darkness,
    I'll run as you please!
    Now I run for my life--
    Stupid darkness!