[Verse 1]

I welcome the withering

The long, lonely dithering

Through hither and thither

In, darkness comes slithering

[Verse 2]

The patter and pittering

My heartbeat askittering

So ruthless, so shivering

The heartless embittering

[Verse 3]

The wreckage and littering

Of lies so disfiguring

The chatter and chittering

While truth stands there, quivering

[Verse 4]

Here is such withering

Through long, lonely wintering

On snowbanks, a flittering

Of sunlight so glittering

[Verse 5]

Still, darkness comes slithering

Through hither and thither

In long, lonely dithering

I welcome the withering