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Loreena McKennitt - The Two Trees Lyrics

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  • Beloved, gaze in thine own heart
  • The holy tree is growing there;
  • From joy the holy branches start
  • And all the trembling flowers they bear.
  • The changing colours of its fruit
  • Have dowered the stars with merry light;
  • The surety of its hidden root
  • Has planted quiet in the night;
  • The shaking of its leafy head
  • Has given the waves their melody.
  • And made my lips and music wed,
  • Murmuring a wizard song for thee,
  • There the Loves a circle go,
  • The flaming circle of our days,
  • Gyring, spiring to and fro
  • In those great ignorant leafy ways;
  • Remembering all that shaken hair
  • And how the winged sandals dart
  • Thine eyes grow full of tender care;
  • Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
  • Gaze no more in the bitter glass
  • The demons, with their subtle guile,
  • Lift up before us when they pass,
  • Or only gaze a little while;
  • For there a fatal image grows
  • That the stormy night receives,
  • Roots half hidden under snows,
  • Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
  • For all things turn to bareness
  • In the dim glass the demons hold,
  • The glass of outer weariness,
  • Made when God slept in times of old.
  • There, through the broken branches, go
  • The ravens of unresting thought;
  • Flying, crying, to and fro,
  • Cruel claw and hungry throat,
  • Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
  • And shake their ragged wings: alas!
  • Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
  • Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
  • Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
  • The holy tree is growing there;
  • From joy the holy branches start,
  • And all the trembling flowers they bear.
  • Remembering all that shaken hair
  • And how the winged sandals dart,
  • Thine eyes grow full of tender care;
  • Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.

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