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The dark night of the soul
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Upon a darkened night
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the flame of love was burning in my breast
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And by a lantern bright
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I fled my house while all in quiet rest
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Shrouded by the night
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and by the secret stair I quickly fled
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The veil concealed my eyes
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while all within lay quiet as the dead
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Chorus
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Oh night thou was my guide
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oh night more loving than the rising sun
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Oh night that joined the lover
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to the beloved one
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transforming each of them into the other
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Upon that misty night
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in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
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Without a guide or light
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than that which burned so deeply in my heart
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That fire t'was led me on
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and shone more bright than of the midday sun
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To where he waited still
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it was a place where no one else could come
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Chorus
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Within my pounding heart
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which kept itself entirely for him
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He fell into his sleep
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beneath the cedars all my love I gave
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And by the fortress walls
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the wind would brush his hair against his brow
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And with its smoothest hand
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caressed my every sense it would allow
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Chorus
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I lost myself to him
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and laid my face upon my lovers breast
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And care and grief grew dim
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as in the mornings mist became the light
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There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
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There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
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There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
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The dark night of the soul
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| Loreena McKennitt |
