[Verse 1] She stood alone Before the burning deep Where sun on sun Unnumbered, wheeled in flame Every star Kept its dreadful watch Too bright, too vast Too terrible to name Ten thousand worlds Of quenchless light Clung to her Thick as breath on glass Glorious and grievous To mortal sight A splendour No lesser eye could pass [Pre-Chorus] But every sun That burns alone Knows not Its own combustion And she, the least The frailest bone Looked on them all And passed beyond them [Chorus] Go down Beyond all light Go down Where the deep grows still Starry Wind Come through me now Starry Wind And make me whole Go down Beyond all light Go down Past the final wall [Verse 2] The Universe is great And knoweth not The soul is small And knows both depth and height Being but a breath A vapour, a thought She stood And was herself the greater light Then a Voice Not from above Nor from the burning Firmament of night Bade her not rise As she had dreamed But softly said Go down, beyond all light [Pre-Chorus] She put away Her restless thought The fame that perisheth Like smoke in wind The wilful longing That her will had sought And every dream That bound her in [Chorus] Go down Beyond all light Go down Where the deep grows still Starry Wind Come through me now Starry Wind And make me whole Go down Beyond all light Go down Past the final wall [Bridge] There she lost The name once hers First given At the hour of birth Nameless, sank Where nothing stirs Past every root And reckoning of earth But out of nothing Soft as dew There breathed a Wind No earthly wind could be The Starry Wind The Wind that knew The strait And touched her gently free [Final Chorus] Go down Beyond all light Go down Where the deep grows still Starry Wind Come through me now Starry Wind And make me whole Go down Beyond all light Go down Past the final wall A Name was given Secret and new Unspoken Yet it lived in me
