“Oh night thou was my guide
Oh night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other.”

— Loreena McKennitt

The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul

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Canadian musician and composer 1957

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