Where the Sword?—all is blacker than night.

Is it finish’d, that loudly ye cry?

Doth he sheathe the great Sword while we die?

O bury us deep, most deep;

Write o’er us, wherever we sleep,

“In the name of the Lord!”

KAISER

While I uplift the Sword,

Thus in the name of the Lord,

Why, with mine eyes full of tears,