Kathys Commentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0yzo9yUzbE&feature=relatedEvening Star
There was, as in the fairy tales,
As ne'er in the time's raid,
There was, of famous royal blood
A most beautiful maid.
She was her parents' only child,
Bright like the sun at noon,
Like the Virgin midst the saints
And among stars the moon.

Kathys CommentsFrom the deep shadow of the vaults
Her step now she directs
Toward a window; at its nook
Bright Evening-star expects.
She looks as in the distant seas
He rises, darts his rays
And leads the blackish, loaded ships
On the wet, moving, ways
Kathys-Comments.comTo look at him every night
Her soul her instincts spur;
And as he looks at her for weeks
He falls in love with her.
And as on her elbows she leans
Her temple and her whim
She feels in her heart and soul that
She falls in love with him.
Kathys CommentsShe speaks with him in sleep and sighs
While her heart's swelled veins drum:
-"O sweet Lord of my fairy nights,
Why comest thou not? Come!
Descend to me, mild Evening-star
Thou canst glide on a beam,
Enter my dwelling and my mind
And over my life gleam!"
And he listens and trembles and
Still more for her love craves
And as quick as the lightning he
Plunges into the waves.
Kathys CommentsThe water in that very spot
Moves rolling many rings
And out of the unknown, dark, depth
A superb young man springs.
-"From my sphere hardly I come to
Follow thy call and thee,
The heaven is my father and
My mother is the sea.
O come, my treasure wonderful
And thy world leave aside;
For I am Evening-star up from
And thou wouldst be my bride.
Kathys CommentsDays have past since: but Evening-star
Comes up againd and stays
Just as before, spreading o'er her
His clear, translucent rays.
In sleep she would remember him
And, as before, her whole
Wish for the Master of the waves
Is clinching now her soul.
-"Descend to me, mild Evening-star
Thou canst glide on a beam,
Enter my dwelling and my mind
And over my life gleam
Kathys CommentsHe hears: and from the dire despair
Of such an woeful weird
He dies, and the heavens revolve
Where he has disappeared.
And all bewitched by love, she lifts
Her eyes toward the fires
Of the witnessing Evening-star
And trusts him her desires:
-"Descend to me, mild Evening-star
Thou canst glide on a beam,
Enter my forest and my mind
And o'er my good luck gleam!"
Kathys CommentsAs he did it once, into woods,
On hills, his rays he urges,
Guiding throughout so many wilds
The gleaming, moving, surges.
But he falls not as he did once
From his height into swells:
-"What matters thee, clod of dust, if
'Tis me or some one else?
You live in your sphere's narrowness
And luck rules over you -
But in my steady world I feel
Eternal, cold and true!"
Kathys CommentsLuceafarul - MIHAI EMINESCU
Kathys CommentsEvening Star - The Fellowship f. Jon Anderson