Fenario - Richard Shindell

True my love, but cold the wind

That howls against the cabin door

Sweet the night, but cruel the day

That comes to take my love away

The fire-light now flickering down

Across the room, the sickle moon

Casting slim and faint reprieve

Upon my love, still fast asleep

Darkness, darkness bind him to me

Hide him in your velvet cloak

Come the dawn he’ll rise and go

A-marching to Fenario

Brave my love, but false the King

False his wars, and false his dawn

Damn the gray that gains the sky

Damn the sun, the King’s cold eye

Darkness, darkness bind him to me

Hide him in your velvet cloak

Come the dawn he’ll rise and go

A-marching to Fenario

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise

The light that shines comes from thine eyes

The day breaks not, it is my heart

Because that you and I must part

Darkness, darkness bind him to me

Hide him in your velvet cloak

Come the dawn he’ll rise and go

A-marching to Fenario