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  • The Night Journey

     

    by Terri Windling

    
       

    Go by coombe, by candle light,

     

    by moonlight, starlight, stepping stone,

     

    and step o'er bracken, branches, briars,

     

    and go tonight, and go alone,

     

    go by water, go by willow,

     

    go by ivy, oak and ash,

     

    and rowan berries red as blood,

     

    and breadcrumbs, stones, to mark the path;

     

    find the way by water's whisper,

     

    water rising from a womb

     

    of granite, peat, of summer heat,

     

    to slake your thirst and fill the coombe

     

    and tumble over moss and stone

     

    and feed the roots of ancient trees

     

    and call to you: go, now, tonight,

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