Blood-greedy weapons--but noble their fall.
Earth is enwrapped in the lowering tempest,
Fierce on the stone-cliff the storm rushes forth,
Cold winter-terror, the night shade is dark'ning,
Hail-storms are laden with death from the north.
All full of hardships is earthly existence--
Here the decrees of the Fates have their sway--
Fleeting is treasure and fleeting is friendship--
Here man is transient, here friends pass away.
Earth's widely stretching, extensive domain,