Call me softly in the darkness
Do not deem to wake my soul
Never think to move my stillness
Nor my sorrow yet console
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Here, in this beautiful moment,
slipping away from the world -
steeped in this glorious season,
shackles of earth now unfurled.
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O listen to the silence
So gentle everywhere
Hear it, quiet, whispering
Yet softly through the air
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Softly in the glow of moonlight
`Neath the canopy of stars
There to ponder in the silence -
Still, within the passing hours
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Captured in the fall of evening
Stilled my soul in sweet recline -
Spanning dark unclouded heavens
Where the moon and stars align
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I thought I saw you moving in the shadows
Drifting through the silence of the night
How brightly shone your eyes that were upon me
A vision oh so beauteous to my sight
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There is nothing left to say now.
Cherished dreams slip into nothingness
as they float away upon the sea of change
towards the far horizon, quietly surrendered,
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When shall the world in splendour rise
To touch those sweet empyreal skies
Above all things in shadows cast
As captured there through years long passed
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Down shaded avenues I wander
'Midst the falling Autumn leaves -
In solitude to dream and ponder
On all which the world now grieves.
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