Owl, silhouette of lilting sun, Sentinel on branch, ******* out Death, the sky, bleeding darkness rung On the skeleton of ancient trees, Your eyes are apparition, eternal flame, Oracle of palliative, divining moon, Which doles out fettered wisdom, misery Cloaked in smokes, deep darkening dusk Loud as silence in wide plains open, That flay as creeping deserts do unravel, O how wanton moon shouts like feather death; Merest whisper as pale wanes on a bough, Like some wraith, in whirls, conjures mercy, Only to rail like gust in cupped tempest. .