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alec guinness - the night lyrics

through that pure virgin shrine
that sacred veil drawn o’er thy glorious noon
that men might look and live, as glowworms shine
and face the moon
wise nicodemus saw such light
as made him know his god by night

most blest believer he!
who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
thy long+expected healing wings could see
when thou didst rise!
and, what can never more be done
did at midnight speak with the sun!

o who will tell me where
he found thee at that dead and silent hour?
what hallowed solitary ground did bear
so rare a flower
within whose sacred leaves did lie
the fulness of the deity?

no mercy+seat of gold
no dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone
but his own living works did my lord hold
and lodge alone;
where trees and herbs did watch and peep
and wonder, while the jews did sleep
dear night! this world’s defeat;
the stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb;
the day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat
which none disturb!
christ’s progress, and his prayer time;
the hours to which high heaven doth chime;

god’s silent, searching flight;
when my lord’s head is filled with dew, and all
his locks are wet with the clear drops of night;
his still, soft call;
his knocking time; the soul’s dumb watch
when spirits their fair kindred catch

were all my loud, evil days
calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent
whose peace but by some angel’s wing or voice
is seldom rent
then i in heaven all the long year
would keep, and never wander here

but living where the sun
doth all things wake, and where all mix and tire
themselves and others, i consent and run
to every mire
and by this world’s ill+guiding light
err more than i can do by night
there is in god, some say
a deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
say it is late and dusky, because they
see not all clear
o for that night! where i in him
might live invisible and dim!

- alec guinness lyrics

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