Someone said that the shadow under the trees
Evermore like the frost became white
As if this green grass was summer's hair
Which hastily aged and froze into ice
I stood quiet and frozen there in the darkness
And only heard everything that I held dear
Disappear in a dark and icy wind
And summer soon lay dead in the land of Rind
So the wind turned around
The black heat came
Later I fell straight into someone's arms
Someone who came running and screamed
I didn't know whom in this darkness
Who caught me when both my legs gave out
If it was a devil or a human
Because the roar increased to a hurricane
And he who held me screamed much louder
Shield your eyes, it's coming soon
So the wind turned around
The black heat came
Then I made my voice as shrill as I could
And yelled back to him, 'I am blind
And therefore shielded, I have never seen
But only ever felt the land of Rind'
Then the man let go of me and ran for his life
I don't know where in the night's hot roar
That suddenly only could be deafened
By fearsome thunder from far away
So the wind turned around
The black heat came
I managed to reach a rocky crevice
There the heat was not so intolerably hard
And someone carried me through the night
The time that followed became my fatal year
I learned the great shriek's braille
On the faces I touched with my hand
Now I am the singer in the third hall
And never will return to my land
So the wind turned around
The black heat came