Profound Quotes

You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough - Frank Crane

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Loreena McKennitt

The Mystics Dream


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIghrxxhQYs&feature=related

A clouded dream on an earthly night
 Hangs upon the crescent moon
 A voiceless song in an ageless light
 Sings at the coming dawn
 Birds in flight are calling there
 Where the heart moves the stones
 It's there that my heart is calling
 All for the love of you

A painting hangs on an ivy wall
 Nestled in the emerald moss
 The eyes declare a truce of trust
 And then it draws me far away
 Where deep in the desert twilight
 Sand melts in pools of the sky
 When darkness lays her crimson cloak
 Your lamps will call me home

And so it's there my homage's due
 Clutched by the still of the night
 And now I feel you move
 Every breath is full
 So it's there my homage's due
 Clutched by the still of the night
 Even the distance feels so near
 All for the love of you. 


The Mummer's Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxTpvA-pUG0


When in the springtime of the year
 When the trees are crowned with leaves
 When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
 Are dressed in ribbons fair

When owls call the breathless moon
 In the blue veil of the night
 The shadows of the trees appear
 Amidst the lantern light

We've been rambling all the night
 And some time of this day
 Now returning back again
 We bring a garland gay

Who will go down to those shady groves
 And summon the shadows there
 And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
 In the springtime of the year

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
 That when the fiddler plays
 All their voices can be heard
 Long past their woodland days

And so they linked their hands and danced
 Round in circles and in rows
 And so the journey of the night descends
 When all the shades are gone

"A garland gay we bring you here
 And at your door we stand
 It is a sprout well budded out
 The work of Our Lord's hand" 

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