Wolves and Priests

This night of savage beasts

Prayers uttered by fearful priests

Send for my matchlock gun

Wish to see the new days sun

Hide pierced by neither spear or swords

Grant me arms of heaven's hordes

Silver shot under Marian hoods

Hunting evil deep in the woods

Godsent man bless my arms

Wer hides I wish to harm

Fear has stalled the daily works

 For what in the shadow lurks

A trace of blood in its cruel path

A pain inflicted by God's wrath?

While consternation spread

Every other bloodshed

Too many innocent slain

Done with an inhuman disdain

Wolves wearing man skin

Yet neither friend nor kin

This shan't be the norm

Terror from lupine forms

I make them fearful and alerted

Dens and covens deserted

Begone demon packs this night

Nightmares in my gun sights

In ichorous blood they drown

Finally exorcised and put down

Routed by arquebus elan

I see wolfish forms now as man

Revealed now in new Sun's rays

Yet there is still more to slay