Say such words as these:

   Leaves fall,
   the days grow cold.
   The Goddess pulls her mantle of Earth around Her
   as You, 0 Great Sun God, sail toward the West
   to the lands of eternal enchantment,
   wrapped in the coolness of night.
   Fruits ripen,
   seeds drop,
   the hours of day and night are balanced.
   Chill winds blow in from the North wailing laments.
   In this seeming extinction of nature's power, 0 Blessed
   Goddess, I know that life continues.
   For spring is impossible without the second harvest,
   as surely as life is impossible without death.
   Blessings upon you, 0 Fallen God, as you journey into
   the lands of winter and into the Goddess' loving arms.