Children: Laughing, playing, screaming, dreaming,

All the night is seeming

Like a wild firedance, firedance.

~

In darken forest

Darken skies,

Birds fly, fly

Above the trees.

Darken night seeming like

A darken sea.

Birds whispering

Sorrows in the wind.

~

Children in the night,

Playing on, playing on,

With a revel and delight.

The sounds of merrymaking

Carry on! Carry on!

~

With a childish giggle,

The darkness covers the light.

The sounds of merrymaking

Carry on! Carry on!

~

The folly of the dance,

The firedance, firedance,

The wild and blazing trance,

At the fire, at the fire:

Smiling faces all,

All smiling faces,

All cold bodies,

In the warmth of the fire.

Fire burning,

Soul unturning,

Inside out,

Dawn breaking,

Fire burn out.

~

And yet still,

Children: Laughing, playing, screaming, dreaming;

All the night is seeming

Like darken days,

Always seeming

Like a wild firedance, fire dance.