Beltane Night

Moon rise and star fall

Fire burn and night wind call

Drumbeat the wild song

That heart sings at summer's dawn

Sown are the new fields

With bright seed of harvest's yield

Far down the roots bind

The heart's joy to summer's time

Leave the fire and come with me

We'll lie beneath the flowering tree

And feel the breathing of the earth

Rise and fall

The green time sings its song again

To wake the hill, to wake the glen

And raise in every living thing

An answering call

Leap o'er the May fire

Hold close your sweet desire

For life's wheel will grant soon

The heart's wish for summer's bloom

Green shoot and pale flower

Garland the Beltane bower

Circle with joined hands

For heart shines with summer's dance

Leave the fire and come with me

To walk beside the dreaming sea

And watch the fading of the stars

As the new day dawns

We'll try to catch time in our hands

To hold the wave against the sand

And watch this glow upon the land

That soon will be gone

So drum beat and flute sound

Once more we'll circle 'round

For the world turns and the wheel spins

And all ends that once begins

This green hour, the heart knows

Is brief as the budding rose

Though wheel turn and bloom fade

The heart sings the birth of May