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Our song for Litha, aka the Summer Solstice, celebrates Bridie, the overlighting Divine Feminine spirit of the land of Avalon. She is also the bride of the Lord of Summer, who we first introduced in our song Beltane (hear that here: https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut/beltane)
The word “Solstice” means "Sun stands still” in Latin, as it appears to do, for three days, at both the Summer and Winter Solstices. At the Summer Solstice, around the 21st of June in the northern hemisphere, the North Pole is turned the most towards the sun, providing us here with the longest day of sunshine of the year.
Lyrics and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, March 2024
Music and Cover Art by APi_ZZ
© APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner) March 2024
You can visit APi_ZZ here. https://soundcloud.com/api_zz
WORDS
How grace You fair the Summerlands,
when the Windmill slows to Your command.
The tumbling tendrils of Your goldenrod hair,
your perfumed breath through June's dawn air,
and skies tinged with roses of Your cheeks pink,
like apples honeying for ambered drink,
while fragrant meadows sing with your springs...
and young cranes soar overhead with Your wings.
These long, lilting Avalon days are Your behest
To the Undeserving and alike, the Blessed.
Even Chronos gives way to Your valse musette,
and slows Time for your gentle, satined step,
where winter’s grief is swept away by Your mercy,
and fairies dance through swaying sunflower leas
to your cooing, throbbing in the breasts of doves
making love, at this season, among the foxgloves.
Your night-scented stocks open in pleasure
like a choir, to Your starry vault of treasures.
The evening blooms along the lanes and ridings,
with aromas so pungent and dusky and enticing,
reminding us of ancient ages, that Time forgot...
of gentler, slower days and deeper thoughts,
when a man’s dreams were valued more than gold,
and a real song could birth new worlds from old.
This is Avalon, raw earth of potter’s clay,
where Bridie sleeps and dreams Her worlds into play.
- Genre
- Ambient