Come in the noiselessness of night

To chant unearthly notes and bars

To the unquiet, pensive stars —

To carol many a carping tune

In mockery of the mourning moon —

By which the jackal and the lynx

Make curious queries to the Sphynx,

Who never drops her stony eyes

From contemplation of the skies

To heed the rout, whose awful howls