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We woke from our sleep in the bosom where cradled together we lay: / The love of the Dark Hidden Father went with us upon our way.
And gay was the breath in our being, and never a sorrow or fear / Was on us, as singing together, we flew from the infinite Lir.
Through nights lit with diamond and sapphire we raced with the / Children of Dawn, / A chain that was silver and golden linked spirit to spirit, my swan.
Till day in the heavens passed over, and still grew the beat / of our wings, / And the Breath of the Darkness enfolded to teach us unspeakable things.
Yet lower we fell and for comfort our pinionless spirits had now / The leaning of bosom to bosom, the lifting of lip unto brow.
Though chained to the earth yet we mourned not the loss of our / heaven above, / But passed from the vision of Beauty to the fathomless being of Love.
Still gay is the breath in our being, we wait for the Bell / Branch to ring / To call us away to the Father, and then we will rise on the wing, / And fly through the twilights of time till the home lights of / heaven appear; / Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the / infinite Lir.