Sunday, January 30, 2011

REMEMBERING THE SAINT, MELANIE MATTSON --THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN / VAN MORRISON

Re: As lovely a way to start (even end) the day

Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:02 AM
To:
"Mark Ganzer"
Beautiful.
 

--- Mark Ganzer <ganzermark@yahoo.com> wrote:

Most of the music I listen to anymore comes via the
 Barrington Area Library's CD collection or
 YouTube.com.

 This particular children's song / water color
 portrait montage / morning prayer comes from both
 sources.

 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
 Van Morrisson

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5Pkvn2m14

 The coolness of the riverbank, and the whispering of
 the reeds
  Daybreak is not so very far away 
  Enchanted and spellbound, in the silence they
 lingered
  And rowed the boat as the light grew steadily
 strong
  And the birds were silent, as they listened for the
 heavenly music
  And the river played the song 
 
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn 
 
  The song dream happened and the cloven hoofed piper

  Played in that holy ground where they felt the awe
 and wonder
  And they all were unafraid of the great god Pan 
 
  And the wind in the willows and the piper at the
 gates of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn 
 
  When the vision vanished they heard a choir of
 birds singing
  In the heavenly silence between the trance and the
 reeds
  And they stood upon the lawn and listened to the
 silence 
 
  Of the wind in the willows and the piper at the
 gates of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn 
 
  It's the wind in the willows and the piper at the
 gates of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn
  The wind in the willows and the piper at the gates
 of dawn