That day, be it darkness, - Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam: Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror: That night, darkness take it, - May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter. read more.
Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein: Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky: Darkened be the stars of its twilight, - Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn: