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They Are All Gone Into The World Of Light

from Splintered Glass by Fairway

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lyrics

They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright
And my sad thoughts doth clear.

It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,
Like stars upon some gloomy grove,
Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest,
After the sun’s remove.

I see them walking in an air of glory,
Whose light doth trample on my days:
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.

O holy Hope! and high Humility,
High as the heavens above!
These are your walks, and you have show’d them me
To kindle my cold love.

Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the just,
Shining nowhere, but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust
Could man outlook that mark!

He that hath found some fledg’d bird’s nest, may know
At first sight, if the bird be flown;
But what fair well or grove he sings in now,
That is to him unknown.

And yet as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul, when man doth sleep:
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes
And into glory peep.

If a star were confin’d into a tomb,
Her captive flames must needs burn there;
But when the hand that lock’d her up, gives room,
She’ll shine through all the sphere.

O Father of eternal life, and all
Created glories under thee!
Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall
Into true liberty.

Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill
My perspective still as they pass,
Or else remove me hence unto that hill,
Where I shall need no glass.

credits

from Splintered Glass, released October 11, 2019
Lyrics: Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
Music: Karl Stepan
Lead Vocal: Karl Stepan
Background Vocals: Susanne Grof-Korbel, Walter Schleger
Ac-Gits: Karl Stepan, Walter Schleger, Georg Swatschina
E-Gits: Walter Schleger, Georg Swatschina
Mellotron: Georg Swatschina
Drums: Walter Kuhn
E-Drums: Walter Kuhn
Bass: Walter Glößl

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Fairway Vienna, Austria

FAIRWAY is an Austrian/Viennese Band, founded in 1980. FAIRWAY plays Urban Folk-Rock.

"Cosmic Twig" Album Release Party: 20 Oct 2016, Replugged/Vienna

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