Refrain (example, sung by chorus) Bharani! Bharani! Mother, stir the drum of night— Bharani! Bharani! Break the sleep of our wounds.
Mythic episode (example) Once the foe rose like a mound of rot, swallowing rivers— You cast your braid as a rope, the trees took hold, the earth sighed. You split the sky with a howl; the mountains shivered and gave up the lost ones. We tell it again, that your name may tighten our nets and loosen our grief.
Poetic English rendering: O Blood-crowned Mother, salt in your laugh—turn your face, Stab the night’s back where the serpent coils; Let the cattle calve beneath your shadow, the wells brim new.