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Book III: W heel of the Year 219<br />
Female:The men shall dance the Old Sun in<br />
With bells <strong>and</strong> ribbons green<br />
While we will drive the cattle herds<br />
The raging fires between<br />
And to the barefoot meadow<br />
Where sheep <strong>and</strong> lamb are shorn<br />
In fire the Oak King dies tonight<br />
The Holly King is born<br />
Male: The Morris Men are in the glen<br />
Their bells <strong>and</strong> ribbons gleam<br />
To quicken the dead with rowan<br />
<strong>and</strong> thread<br />
And thicken the harvest seed<br />
With sword the fool is shattered<br />
His clothes are tattered <strong>and</strong> torn<br />
In fire the Oak King dies tonight<br />
The Holly King is born<br />
Male: I have built a bower love<br />
Where you <strong>and</strong> I may lie<br />
Female: There to share the Harvest Dream<br />
Beneath the twilight sky<br />
Male: And there we’ll seal our wedding<br />
Female:And love all lifetimes long<br />
Both: In fire the Oak King dies tonight<br />
The Holly King is born!<br />
—Kenny Klein<br />
211. Summer Solstice Blessing<br />
Now as the wheel, ever turning, brings us<br />
to its height,<br />
And the sun begins to die in the sky,<br />
Then must we turn inward to inner peace<br />
<strong>and</strong> harmony.<br />
May this inner peace be reflected in our<br />
outward work,<br />
For peace throughout this troubled world<br />
that we live on.<br />
May the coming harvest be one that feeds<br />
all the hungry,<br />
May all the weary have somewhere safe to<br />
rest their heads,<br />
And though the warmth of the sun will<br />
diminish,<br />
Let the warmth of our love be constant <strong>and</strong><br />
more than that, grow.<br />
—Barbara & Peter;<br />
the Coven of the Dagda’s Cauldron<br />
212. Summer Solstice Invocation<br />
We invoke thee, Great Goddess,<br />
You who create, animate,<br />
And bind all elemental <strong>for</strong>ces<br />
Into Your awesome Web of relationship.<br />
We gather at Summer Solstice<br />
To honor <strong>and</strong> celebrate Your fire essence in<br />
all its <strong>for</strong>ms.<br />
We call You to our circle, into us, from<br />
within us,<br />
To bless us with the passion <strong>and</strong> ability<br />
To trans<strong>for</strong>m ourselves through Your gift of<br />
Spirit.<br />
To heal ourselves. To heal one another.<br />
To heal our home, our Earth.<br />
We call You by the flame that purifies,<br />
And by the fire of our will that burns eternally.<br />
Blessed be the Goddess of Life who kindles<br />
the flame!<br />
—Ruth Barrett<br />
213. Sonnet <strong>for</strong> Gaia<br />
Gaia spirit; luminous light<br />
Spiraling out of darkest night<br />
Casting out what doesn’t hold<br />
Bringing in the common mold<br />
Patterns <strong>for</strong>m, we see once more<br />
Life is but an open door<br />
Mirror held <strong>for</strong> us to see<br />
Projections of eternity<br />
Earth, the heart <strong>and</strong> mind <strong>and</strong> soul<br />
The Elements that make us whole<br />
Fate, we cast with our own h<strong>and</strong><br />
Seen in water, air <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong><br />
So in the Cosmos soon will be<br />
Intertwining destiny<br />
Dancing, weaving in <strong>and</strong> out<br />
Spiraling magic ‘round about<br />
What we work we’ll surely know<br />
As what we reap we surely sow.<br />
—Marylyn Motherbear, April 1992<br />
214. Mother I Feel You<br />
Mother I feel you under my feet;<br />
Mother I hear your heart beat!<br />
Heya heya heya heya heya heya ho!<br />
—Windsong Dianne Martin
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