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Upon a darkened night |
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the flame of love was burning in my breast |
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And by a lantern bright |
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I fled my house while all in quiet rest |
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Shrouded by the night |
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And by the secret stair I quickly fled |
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The veil concealed my eyes |
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while all within lay quiet as the dead |
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Oh night thou was my guide |
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of night more loving than the rising sun |
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Oh night that joined the lover |
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to the beloved one |
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transforming each of them into the other |
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Upon that misty night |
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in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight |
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Without a guide or light |
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than that which burned so deeply in my heart |
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That fire t'was led me on |
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and shone more bright than of the midday sun |
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To where he waited still |
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it was a place where no one else could come |
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(Chorus) |
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Within my pounding heart |
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which kept itself entirely for him |
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He fell into his sleep |
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beneath the cedars all my love I gave |
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From o'er the fortress walls |
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the wind would his hair against his brow |
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And with its smoothest hand |
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caressed my every sense it would allow |
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(Chorus) |
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I lost myself to him |
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and laid my face upon my lover's breast |
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And care and grief grew dim |
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as in the morning's mist became the light |
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There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair |
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there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair |
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there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair |
