The Longest Night Comes and the Sun is Dead

The longest night comes and the Sun is dead

all life sleeps in the cradle of the Earth

bitter wind blows and the last leaf falls

shiver in the longest night

*Rest, dying Sun, in the flames of our hearth,

rest that spring may come again

all is not winter, all is not lost

the light shall be reborn*

A candle flame lit in the dead of night

casts its glow over softly falling snow

kindling a story in your open hand

tales of the longest night

Candles in the night, sharing the light

shadows from their glow, softly falling snow

Story in your hand, wisdom of the land,

tell us of the darkness, tell us of the light

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The boundless Earth borne on her axis turns

turns away from the distant winter Sun

spinning through the steps of their sacred dance

bring us to the longest night

Axis of the Earth, turning to rebirth,

dancing as one, waiting for the Sun

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