Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

Music: Betty MacNeill. By Turlough O'Carolan. Sequenced at the Ancient Music of Ireland.

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Beneath the canopy of moon and stars Two tiny people sit, for now together. Love binds them, they would like to hope, forever; But there is much that such a union bars. Heaven is so vast; the Earth so small, Yet large enough to stretch a great love thin. For love to flourish, it must turn within: To the single soul that unifies us all. Within this soul the walls of fear dissolve: Distance, difference, history are no more. The holy silence stills the sounds of war. We love as round us miracles revolve. We know we cannot live within this shell Of heaven both above us and below. Day by every day the world we know Will guarantee we recognize it well. Yet there are truths far greater than the sun, Beyond the blanket blue of every day. In love's dark longings, we will find a way To make our human separateness one.