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Upon a darkened nightthe flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest
Shrouded by the night
And by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyeswhile all within lay quiet as the dead
Chorus:
Oh night thou was my guideof 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(
Chorus)
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 his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest handcaressed my every sense it would allow(
Chorus)I lost myself to himand laid my face upon my lover's breast
And care and grief grew dimas in the morning's mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fairthere they dimmed amongst the lilies fairthere they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
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