Weak midnight promises of love
   Were wept upon Her grave
   And shunned by stars above
   In mortal life lurks my dismay
   An Angel stole my heart
   And Death took Her away
  
   She sleeps beyond the grace of god
   A dreaming beauty
   If wishes could only fray that bond
   The dead would sing for me...
  
   Twelfth moon arose with ghostly voice
   A poet's serenade
   Her name a whisper 'pon my lips
   And lo, Rorasa came
  
   "Fear me not my grieving King
   Funereal in breath
   The secrets of the dark I know
   And thus, we shall cheat Death"
  
   My promises wrought though despondence that night
   Have delivered me gifts from the grave
   Rorasa enshadowed and eternal life
   Never a Devil so vain
   The Angel is fallen, for I thought her lost
   And no heaven would silence the pain
   Teach me these secrets, the sensual frost
   Desire for warm blood again
  
   Princess lay down thy florid cheek
   In drunken splendour
   Tonight rare regal fate has cast
   The wolves among the sheep
  
   Dark nature clasp my soul
   Around Her throat mine arms enfold
   To sleep, perchance to dream
   And then.