One Dark Night - John Michael Talbot

One dark night

Fired with love’s urgent longings

Ah, the sheer grace

In the darkness

I went out unseen

My house being all now still

In the darkness

Secured by love’s secret ladder

Disguised

Oh, the sheer grace

In the darkness

And in my concealment

My house being all now still

On that glad night

In the secret, for no one saw me

Nor did I see any other thing at all

With no other light to guide me

Than the light burning in my heart

And this light guided me

More surely than the light of the noon

To where he lay waiting for me

Waiting for me

Him I knew so well

In a place where no one else appeared

Oh guiding night

A light more lovely than the dawn

A night that has united

Ever now

The Lover now with his beloved

Transforming two now into one

Upon my flowering breast

There he lay sleeping

Which I kept for him alone

And I embraced him

And I caressed him

In a breeze blowing from the forest

And when this breeze blew in from the forest

Blowing back our hair

He wounded my soul

With his gentle hand

Suspending all my senses

I abandoned, forgetting myself

Laying my face on my Beloved

All things ceasing, I went out from myself

To leave cares

Forgotten with the lilies of the field