Loreena McKennitt - The Two Trees

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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[fireferryable]

<3

[terigower]

@fireferryable

thanks Aim..

[terigower]

love is yours...a gift without time...

i am beyond you...

you are in me

you are further on

holding me within

[dnadsy52]

Always Beautiful mary, Thank you.........d.

[terigower]

@dnadsy52

you are always there ....

Danke

mary

[Sunambra]

Pictures take the breath away the song soothes the poetry gives hope.

[terigower]

@sirhcnehcsig just love so much these words from a poem by William Butler Yeats.......thank you  for ur kind words and being with me Gisa.........mary

[terigower]

@krysant50 MY POEM IS ON AT END OF COMMENTS.....this one just reaches into me with its beauty...... i stayed up late to put it on.....loved the poem so much....mary

[terigower]

Love with her ethereal face homeless..until given her place deep within you from my heart to yours love enters and fills the space left inside... her freedom travelling through time her divinity yours and mine leaving light within to shine......

[terigower]

From the holy place within

Love is given

where light shines

Like a Lantern

through Eternity,,,,,,,,,

mary