Summer Night by Klmn Kalocsay Lyrics
The summer night begins in whispers
Humming a secret canzonetta.
Night beds and lulls us breast to breast
Upon the isle of Margaretta.
Out here where once a cloister stood
Haven to pale and silent nuns,
Where now a love-secluding wood
Grows pagan over ruined stones,
The night incenses us with mint,
Mallow, narcissus and the wind,
Anoints us with a sacrament
Of love: a kiss we cannot end.
What jubilee the reveling crickets
Chirrup in one frenetic drone!
Deep in the grass the glow-worms flicker
Discreetly for themselves alone.
Like a gigantic tinsel veil
Round us lies the celestial arc,
And slowly the Isle of Margaretta
Sets sail with us: a bridal barque.
Humming a secret canzonetta.
Night beds and lulls us breast to breast
Upon the isle of Margaretta.
Out here where once a cloister stood
Haven to pale and silent nuns,
Where now a love-secluding wood
Grows pagan over ruined stones,
The night incenses us with mint,
Mallow, narcissus and the wind,
Anoints us with a sacrament
Of love: a kiss we cannot end.
What jubilee the reveling crickets
Chirrup in one frenetic drone!
Deep in the grass the glow-worms flicker
Discreetly for themselves alone.
Like a gigantic tinsel veil
Round us lies the celestial arc,
And slowly the Isle of Margaretta
Sets sail with us: a bridal barque.