Songs:His Face (123785)
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He came to me just like the wind on the night that we were wed and wrapped his love like a soft cocoon around our marriage bed. He left before the rosy brush of dawn could paint the sky saying, “Mark my words my own true love, and do not ask me why. “I will pour my songs of love so gently in your ear. My scent it will caress your skin as you walk the day my dear. And you may touch, and you may taste, but you may never, ever see my face.” For many months our hearts were one, our souls like limbs entwined, our passion brighter than the sun, and older than mankind. Before the day came knocking on our shutters as we slept, he whispered to me softly as from my arms he crept. “I will pour my songs of love so gently in your ear. My scent it will caress your skin as you walk the day my dear. And you may touch, and you may taste, but you may never, ever see my face.” *But nagging doubt as old as sin it would not let me be. What kind of monster is this man that he won’t let me see? I bought a lamp, filled it with oil, the flame it lit the room, and I gazed upon the sleeping face of my beloved groom. His form so noble and so rare. I turned my head and cried to think that such an angel had lain there by my side. Stabbed by guilt and flushed with shame, I quickly turned away, but truth will out, and one small drop of oil did me betray. With a cry of sharp alarm he wakened with a start and in his eyes I saw the wound it reached down to his heart. And there before my faithless eyes I watched him disappear and what he’d said came back to me, “Please mark these words, my dear: “I will pour my songs of love so gently in your ear. My scent it will caress your skin as you walk the day my dear. And you may touch, and you may taste, but you may never, ever see my face.” I sit here in this cold, dark wood, to my sad fate resigned. What had brought me only bliss no longer would be mine. For it was not enough for me that I could touch and taste, No, I could not be content ‘til I had seen his face.
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 | Vocal Duo 795 items |
 | Acoustic Guitar 10,172 items |
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