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Christa Landon, one of the founders of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, wrote this as a Samhain hymn. She’s written other Pagan songs, but this is my favorite. It has been used in circle, with good effect. No, it wasn’t sung at my wedding.

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Hear my voice, O Lord of Hades.
Salve my sorrow; light is fading.
Muse, add thine eloquence to mine.
End of year and end of harvest.
Burnt the fields where life abounded.
All that remains is memory’s wine.

Where the roses of the summer?
Where the light, when leaves have fallen?
Where are the works that I have done?
As the sowing, so the reaping
Turns the year to joy or weeping.
The hour of weighing grain has come.

Wine distills the sun of summer.
Now I wait and watch and slumber,
Vigil to keep beneath the ground.
Yet my eyes see light and darkness.
Yet my soul knows truth and shadow.
Yet I attend upon the spring.

Deep in silence speaks the wisdom.
Let me treasure autumn’s season:
Time to reflect, to dream and plan.
Burn the weeds and fill the grain bin.
Rise the shades to whisper longings.
Earth rends her garments, mourns the sun.

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from Avalon is Risen (The Retro Filk Mix), released December 1, 2012
© 1972 Christa Heiden Landon

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