The Dawn-Piper's Tune

from The 4th Cup by Green Mistletoe

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the Dawn-Piper's Tune

When fading stars their honeydew shed
On new leaves fair and tender
Misty the small hours before the dawn
when I beheld the Piper

My eyes were charmed by the glittering glen
Clothed all in lace and diamonds
The tatting spiders had captured the gems
that ringed the mossy island

O sweet the tune that beckoned me
and lulled the little foundling
The otter's babe in spellbound slumber
lay safe in the arm of the May-King

His horns curved wide as he took his ease
the shaggy God of the Woodlands
Calm he shone in reverie
his piping melody's sweet trance

The reedy pipes he withdrew from his lips
and sloe-dark eyes he opened
and seized my animal heart with Joy
a-trembling 'neath the rowan

Then broke the Dawn with her glorious gold
and shafts of brightness streaming
And then did ancient Pan divine
fade soft into the gleaming

If I should live ten thousand years
and know ten-score new lifetimes
though all Eternity pass away
His music, still deep in my heart, chimes.

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from The 4th Cup, released August 2, 2014

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