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Demeter's Daughter
Anne Lister

While picking flowers in the field
all in the springtime of the year,
I heard the sound of chariot wheels
and was afraid with nothing to fear.

And there he stood with his eyes like fire,
His face as dark as a night in hell,
And there he stood with his eyes like fire,
and said, "Fair Lady, I wish you well."

They say he forced me but that's not so --
Of my free will I followed him down
to his dark place beneath the hill,
to his dark palace below the ground.

And there he loved me and I loved him
though all the world there was icy dark
We never noticed the light was dim
for the bright flame inside our hearts.

They say above us the world grew cold,
the leaves and flowers began to die.
The fruit trees withered and grew old,
and dark'ning clouds covered all the sky.

My mother searched hard and tried to find
a pathway leading down from the sun,
and long she travelled with troubled mind
until she walked where we once had run.

I still remember the dreadful hour
she stood before us and bade me leave
Her dress of sunlight, her face a flower,
his face behind me so full of grief.

We made a bargain and made it sure,
we made a contract and made it sound --
that I would stay with her for half the year,
the other half come below the ground.

It was so good at first to see the sky,
to walk in sunlight and hear the lark;
but not so good to have to say goodbye
to my love down there in the dark.

Oh yes, it's true then that life is good,
and I've learned the lesson it can teach:
that you can never have all you want,
and you never want what's within reach.

The sweetest flower that ever bloomed
grows far deep inside a bush of thorns
And happiness then is like the rose,
for without pain nothing good is born.

To know the daylight you must know dark,
to know the flowers you must know weeds;
you cannot meet again unless you part,
or eat a pomegranate without seeds.

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iseult1124 wrote:

Any chance that Loreena has done "The Lady of Shalott"?

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LadyVendetta wrote:

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iseult1124 wrote:

Any chance that Loreena has done "The Lady of Shalott"?

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YES!!!! It's absolutely wonderful! I thought of that song when I saw the "Lady of Shalott" painting.

I think you can download it from iTunes. A clip can be heard here off her album, "The Visit."

The Visit

It's a downloadable mp3 clip. The quality isn't that good for the clip, but on the CD the quality of the entire song is excellent! So, don't be worried about the 'fuzziness' you hear on the clip. It's not like that at all on the CD.

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Leda74 wrote:
Ironically enough, I'm listening to Loreena McKennit's "Night Ride Across the Caucasus" as I read this thread. There's a little coincidence...!

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