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I could praise you once with beautiful words ere you came / And entered my life with love in a wind of flame.
I could lure with a song from afar my bird to its nest, / But with pinions drooping together silence is best.
In the Land of Beautiful Silence the winds are laid, / And life grows quietly one in the cloudy shade.
I will not waken the passion that sleeps in the heart, / For the winds that blew us together may blow us apart.
Fear not the stillness; for doubt and despair shall cease / With the gentle voices guiding us into peace.
Our dreams will change as they pass through the gates of gold, / And Quiet, the tender shepherd, shall keep the fold.