By the dawn of day This parson pilfers The tongue of its prey And flutters it at will Till the shades of evening turn grey And if fact is there, All the way into caves of twilight. It deals with opposition Quite different way: A sudden wit, a swift play Followed by hypersonic heed And that's it The enemy is shed And maintained by lightning whips Or sweet succession of Lilliputian leaps. Don't oppose its sermon for too long For it stuns the breath Heaven's assigned it a sign Lovers can read And beasts endeavor to destroy it Welcome its weightless landings For it never rests Until nestled by fate.