Verses for the prayers of Hasanyah the Queen, to be sung at the Midnight Song: XII. For the Fast of Summer

Six verses.

Now the shining Car of Summer

Highest in the Lower Heaven

Burns, when back the vicious forces

Of the passions from the Isle

Fanhal drove, with help of Heaven,

When from depths the Guardian rose up.

Let the bright illumination

Of my inward senses, dreamed

By the midnight of my passions

Wake my heart to watchful fasting

While I wait the Feast of Summer

When the light will linger longest.

When the light will linger longest,

Then my heart will sing, unhindered

By the darkness which besets it.

Fasting leads to joyous feasting,

Sorrow which we meet with gladness

Heals our souls, sustains our longing.

Strong within me is my longing

For the light of Deepest Heaven,

Where beyond the shining starlight

Nakeinela, First, Unfounded,

Ever rests beyond the passions

Which so easily beset me.

Let us, resting now at Midnight,

Contemplate that Deepest Heaven

Where the Maker, who once stood here

By these waters, crystal, flowing,

Let us rest within the Vigil,

Sing the hymns beside the waters.

Soon the sun will shine upon us,

Soon the rosy dawn will find us,

Now the sleeping world around us

Slumbers, heedless of the rising

Of the sun of shining summer

Which reveals the hearts of mankind.