The heaven's parted and the angels said "Be still." As flames shot out of the raging sea and demons shrieked with glee, I stood on the top of the mountain and wept.
Across the ballroom,
Meeting my shy gaze,
In golden costume
Arrayed, in a maze
Of blooming flowers
Which lilting breezes
Make sway for hours,
Time slows, stops, freezes.
Bathed in Ivory light,
A waking vision,
Giving my heart flight.
While the division
Between us closes,
My soul says a prayer,
While many roses
Bloom few can compare
To thy beauty in
This night, this hour.
If it be a sin,
To in thy power
Fall so completely,
Then forgive me now,
But can so sweetly
A sin, I avow,
Be sinning? If not,
Then praying I ask,
Grant me what I've sought,
Lowering my mask,
To see and be seen
By this angel sweet,
Poor, fair, child, weeping by the water's edge,
He was a false lover, 'twas a fallacious pledge.
Your heart is in a thousand pieces, you're bruised
And you're bleeding, a sweet child so wrongly used,
But maiden, stop your weeping, we offer what you seek,
Come dredge the river bed, and see of what we speak,
The gelid water, a silken, encompassing, cloak,
Threading through your heart which will never more evoke
Ardor for any man who tries wooing your heart,
You'll be freed from loves pains, your soul never torn apart,
Let the cool river's treasures be your only love,
And then thee, my darling, my little white dove,
By stealing you w