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LOVE-IN-A-MIST

Love-in-a-mist, may the angels guide you
Safe from the death and danger beside you,
Lead you home your unlighted path
To the love that's patient and yours till death.
Love-in-a-Mist!
The way is narrow: your foot unheeding
Close to the edge of the precipice treading.
So many have fallen the way you go,
A thousand feet to the valley below.
Love-in-a-Mist!
Dark is the night and the mist is blinding,
But the road's still upward, winding and winding;
The stars come out through the night and gloom,
Love sets a light in the windows of home.
Love-in-a-Mist!
Love-in-a-Mist, may the angels tend you!
The eyes of God look down and befriend you!
There is death in the valley, but up on the hill
The stars are shining, the night is still.
Love-in-a-Mist!