Set sail, set sail,
Turn your face where the sun grows dim,
Beyond the rim, beyond the rim.

Set sail, set sail,
One thing becomes another,
In the Mother, in the Mother.

Set sail, set sail,
Make of your heart a burning fire,
Build it higher, build it higher.

Set sail, set sail,
Pass in an instant through the open gate,
It will not wait, it will not wait.

Set sail, set sail,
Over the dark of the sunless sea,
You are free, you are free.

Set sail, set sail,
Guiding the ship of the rising sun,
You are the one, you are the one.

Set sail, set sail,
Into the raging wind and storm,
To be reborn, to be reborn.

Set sail, set sail,
Over the waves where the spray blows white,
To bring the light, to bring the light.

We are awake in the night!
We turn the Wheel, to bring the light!
We call the sun from the womb of the night!

Queen of the sun!
Queen of the moon!
Queen of the horns!
Queen of the fires!
Bring to us the Child of promise!

It is the Great Mother
Who gives birth to Him,
It is the Lord of Life,
Who is born again!
Darkness and tears
Are set aside,
When the sun come up again!

Golden sun,
Of hill and field,
Light the earth!
Light the skies!
Light the waters!
Light the fires!




Copyright © 1979 by Miriam Simos

From The Spiral Dance by Starhawk (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1979; revised edition, 1989). Used by arrangement with HarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.