O volatile ingress Cross foundation damp earth Shadow's giving birth And smiling with mirth From gable to furnace Chambers forgotten Where vines are grown rotten Where the others begotten O, the joy of joining The darkness' mad laughter A dread promise thereafter To the voice in the rafters Thief of all I was before In closed lidded flight Ecstatic I soar Down through the cellar door! Thief of all I was before Holy abject mother come now Holy Mother come