Men are chasing a deer ("The four hooves echo in the night. / Pictures of deepest fear reflect in your eyes," - this is why I don't think it's a horse) in the woods ("Inside the forest oh so deep, / The creatures of the night watch intensively / This hunt that flashes them by.") and by the dawn they catch it ("As the welkin embraces his stars / To a shimmering nightly play, / The arch-enemy of man / Is once more prey")
Men are chasing a deer ("The four hooves echo in the night. / Pictures of deepest fear reflect in your eyes," - this is why I don't think it's a horse) in the woods ("Inside the forest oh so deep, / The creatures of the night watch intensively / This hunt that flashes them by.") and by the dawn they catch it ("As the welkin embraces his stars / To a shimmering nightly play, / The arch-enemy of man / Is once more prey")