This poem is based on the story of Ladyhawke, where a knight and maiden live life together but apart because a priest who loves the maiden uses a curse to keep her and her lover apart...knight is a wolf by night and maiden is a hawk by day, and they are never to be together as humans. A stranger comes and declares that the curse can be broken by the maiden and knight appearing before the priest at the moment when sun and moon appear at once together, during a solar eclipse. Together they confront the priest and hawk is transformed into a human, and she in turn curses the cleric to forever be a slithering snake. The maiden and knight live happily ever after, finally together again as humans.