Dark! The winter solstice night (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing)

 Dark! The winter solstice night (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) 

This is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. The carol … features … music adapted from "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" by Felix Mendelssohn. - Wikipedia 

I wrote these lyrics to celebrate the tradition of telling ghost stories during the Christmas holiday – a tradition that predates and is echoed in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I stan Halloween so keeping the Spooky Spirit all year long is my jam. Funny enough, adding the line about Nephilim actually puts a Biblical bit back in. 

 

Dark! the Winter solstice night 
Stories tell of ghastly fright 

Peace be here, and keep us calm 

As we stave off pabulum  

This suspense in chilling wind 

Keeps the blankets to our chin 

When the spectral hosts proclaim 

"Yield unto the Nephilim" 

Dark the Winter solstice night 
Stories tell of ghastly fright 

  

Spark! The glistening frosted patterns 

Candles, ice, and snow take turns 

Showing shapes not truly there 

This phantasm, frightening fare 

In spite of our fovea (we) 

Suffer pareidolia 

What is this and whence it came? 

Who art thou and what's thy name? 

Pleased as punch, our powerful 

Storyteller Masterful. 

 
Hark The sunrise brings with it 

Songs of morning, brightly lit 

All the ghosts of stories past 

In their tombs they rest at last 

Gather strength, oh solar rays 

Bring us longer warmer days 

Solstice of the winter switch 

We're reborn, just like a lich 

Hail the fair relief-filled morn 

A new year has just been born. 

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