"Ages Past, Ages Hence" lyrics - LOREENA MCKENNITT

Ancient castles and climbing cliffs
Summoned by the sea
Windswept shores and crashing waves
Rages furiously
Twisting trees, old and true
Stand huddled watchingly

And ages past, ages hence
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Ages past, ages hence
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What pagan smile has touched your lips?
What melody so sweet
Soothed your breast, your beating heart?
The underworld gone to sleep
Twisting trees, old and true
Stand huddled watchingly

Oh, ages past, ages hence
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Ages past, ages hence
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Into the clutches of night
I can see the torchlight shine bright
The gates are drawn
The hounds sit still
There's laughter that bubbles within
Dampened, the trees quietly witnessing
Man's journey into himself

Ever turning, ever churning, clutching the waves
This wealth
Yearning there fast, never quench it
Tumble the thoughts
Until they lie like petals on the ground
Gathered by wind stretched through the trees
To the whispering sound.

Ancient castles and climbing cliffs
Summoned by the sea
Windswept shores and crashing waves
Rages furiously
Twisting trees, old and true
Stand huddled watchingly

Oh, ages past, ages hence
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Ages past, ages hence
Pages turned carefully

Ages past, ages hence
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Ages past, ages hence
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