ALL SAINTS
All saints, all saints, restoring,
Remembering your days;
Saints of Heaven’s calling
By sanctity upraised.
All souls, all souls, bewailing,
Beyond the veiling years;
Your bodies falling, failing,
A’washed by mortal tears.
The ghosts and prancing demons;
What have they done to you?
Obscuring maids and lemans
For sympathy in lieu;
We laugh and as we shiver,
Shake off the dread unknown
With dancing skulls deliver-
The nights that called you home.
All saints, all saints in brightness,
Now holding court afar;
The prayers of all you righteous
May lift us where you are;
All souls, all souls, in dying
Remind us of the gift;
Remember without crying,
And shield us as we drift.
The grins of bones and devils,
The jack o’ lanterns’ gleam;
Invite us to the revels-
But I see what they mean.
Our fear of death and wonder
Makes us set our sights too blind-
But faith you cannot sunder;
And All Hallows Night reminds.
All Saints
