Nightfall

As a rot to rape the spring sown seed
 A plague sprang forth off his tracks
 Churns ran red when cows milked blood
 And famine cracked poor backs
 Who would hear a lament sad
 Under the bright blue sky
 That's sung in hovels dark and low
 With eyes too weak to cry, cry, cry
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 But horror be the nightfall's gloom
 For the man upon the road, man upon the road
 When moon doth laugh at worthless lives
 Twice hard for all promise showed
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 Empty stare upon his face
 Nine fathoms deep
 He set upon the road again
 On ground that bears no seed
 Ground that bears no seed
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 But horror be the nightfall's gloom
 For the man upon the road, man upon the road
 When moon doth laugh at worthless lives
 Twice hard for all promise showed, promise showed
 Promise showed, promise showed, promise showed