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The Lantern of the Greening Light

from Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (expanded) by Stone Breath

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The lantern of the Greening Light
Will shine upon the path so bright
And show us ways we thought were lost
Through leaf and dew and vine and moss.

And though the heartless and the false,
Who do not feel the seasons' pulse,
Will claim that we're both lost and wrong
To follow Green Light and bird song:

We'll hold the Lantern as our guide
To cross both time and river wide
Until such time we realize:
The Light doth shine from our own eyes!

When my heart is cleaved like an apple
Upon your blood-gilt blade:
Cross my hands upon my chest;
Cross my feet that I may rest.

When you light the candles around my grave
And around my body cold:
Then raise the steal above your head,
Chant with God upon your breath,
And bring your blade down on my neck!

The desert storms with songs of God.
The locust swarms on crop and sod.
Candles drip their wax on sand
With flames by black wings fanned.

And just beyond the candles' dance;
The shadows held in flickering trance.
A subtle glow, a stranger sight:
The Lantern of the Greening Light.

By rising sun or shining star,
Those who can see where they are,
Will walk behind the Lantern's Light
And know the path they walk is right.

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from Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (expanded), released October 31, 2000

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Stone Breath is not new. It is cracked. Broken. Imperfect. Hidden. Weathered by the seasons.

We sing of ghosts and of forgotten paths through forest and fallow field.

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