The Dark Night of the Soul
Upon a darkened night The flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house when allin quiet rest Shrouded by the night And by the secret stair I quickly fled The veil concealed my eyes While all within lay quiet as the dead Oh night thou was my guide Oh night more loving than the rising sun Oh night that joined the lover To the beloved one Transforming each of them into the other Upon that misty night In secrecy, beyond such mortal sight Without a guide or light That which burned so deeply in my heart That fire 'twas led me on And shone more bright than all the midday sun To where he waited still It was a place where no one else would come Within my pounding heart Which kept itself entirely for him He fell into his sleep Beneath the cedars all my love I gave From o'er the fortress walls The wind would brush his hair against his brow And with it's smoothest hand Caressed my every sense it would allow I lost myself to him And laid my face upon my lover's breast And care and grief grew dim As in the morning's mist became the light There they dimmed amongst the lillies fair There they dimmed amongst the lillies fair There they dimmed amongst the lillies fair --Loreena McKennitt
"O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall.
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity."--W. B. Yeats
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