5. and send thick, gloomy shadowsto fill it with dread.
6. Erase that night from the calendarand conceal it with darkness.
7. Don't let children be createdor joyful shouts be heardever again in that night.
8. Let those with magic powersplace a curse on that day.
9. Darken its morning starsand remove all hope of light,
10. because it let me be borninto a world of trouble.
11. Why didn't I die at birth?
12. Why was I acceptedand allowed to nurseat my mother's breast?
13. Now I would be at peacein the silent world below
14. with kings and their adviserswhose palaces lie in ruins,
15. and with rulers once richwith silver and gold.