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Upon a darkened nightthe flame o love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest Shrouded by the nightand by the secret star I quikly fled The veil concealed my eyeswhile all within lay quiet as the dead Oh night though was my guideoh night more loving than the rising sun Oh night that joined the loverto the beloved onetransforming each of them into the other Upon that misty nightin secrecy, beyond such mortal sight Without a guide or lightthan that which burned so deeply in my heart That fire t'was led me onand shone more bright than of the midday sun To where he waited stillit was a place where no one else could come Within my pounding heartwhich kept itself entirely for him He fell into his sleepbeneath the cedars all my love I gave From o'er the fortress wallsthe wind would brush his hair against his brow And with its smoothest handcaressed my every sense it would allow I lost myself to himand laid my face upon my lovers breast And care and grief grew dimas in the mornings mist became the light There they dimmed amongst the lilies fairthere they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
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