2C.
Ravens of religion · greet the nightmare years
You and i with faith may · beat these nightmare years
      beat these nightmare years

Gardens turn to desert · desert to battlefields
Melody and musician · are fleet in nightmare years
      fleet in nightmare years

Nomad and householder · each must fadge or steal
their own way to deal with · defeat through nightmare years
      defeat through nightmare years

So many crying children · so many hardened hearts
so many kinds of mindless · retreat from nightmare years
      retreat from nightmare years

But Grinchus still is waging · his magic and his art
Across the luscious labyrinth · concrete and nightmare years
      concrete and nightmare years
      concrete and nightmare years