one dark night fired with love s urgent longings ah the sheer grace in the darkness i went out unseen my house being all now still in the darkness secured by love s secret ladder disguised oh the sheer grace in the darkness and in my concealment my house being all now still on that glad night in the secret for no one saw me nor did i see any other thing at all with no other light to guide me than the light burning in my heart and this light guided me more surely than the light of the noon to where he lay waiting for me waiting for me him i knew so well in a place where no one else appeared oh guiding night a light more lovely than the dawn a night that has united ever now the lover now with his beloved transforming two now into one upon my flowering breast there he lay sleeping which i kept for him alone and i embraced him and i caressed him in a breeze blowing from the forest and when this breeze blew in from the forest blowing back our hair he wounded my soul with his gentle hand suspending all my senses i abandoned forgetting myself laying my face on my beloved all things ceasing i went out from myself to leave cares forgotten with the lilies of the field