Ghost-grey the fall of night
Ice-bound the lane,
Lone in the dying light
Flits he again;
Lurking where the shadows steal,
Perched in his coat of blood,
Man’s homestead at his heel,
Death-still the wood.

Odd restless child; it’s dark;
All winds are flown
But this one wizard’s – hark!
Stone clapped on stone!
Changeling and solitary,
Secret and sharp and small,
Flits he from tree to tree,
Calling on all.