From a hobbyist project for The Dark Mod; the sentiments are not my own.
What storms rag’d in the ages primaeval, Ere the lightning was cag’d by machine! And the kiln and the hammer’s upheaval Pil’d up brick where once forests had been. What nights fell with the snows deathly gentle, As we huddled round campfires of old, Rapt in wonder and fear elemental, And dark tales of the wild were retold. What dark pacts would I make in dread places To steal thee to worlds eldritch again, There to gaze on thy fairest of faces With a passion as wild as the rain! The mechanical clock mocks my yearning. Should my years sum a thousand or more, Shall I see the great cycle returning To the way we existed before? For whose beauty, or life, is eternal But the two lights’ that circle above, Ever turning, nocturn- and diurnal, With a constance beyond mortal love? Grant me power, O ye ancient arcana, To transcend this sublunary state! Adoration undying must gain her Who’ll be lost to this world that I hate.