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She moved through the fair with a smile in her eye so pure and graceful and free and caught the attention of one who worked there a candlestick maker, he handsome and young a craftsman fine smitten by her that day and so he fashioned a poem for her that would say "take me in your hands tonight, come through the parlor by candlelight, with thee I will wait this night, chase away shadows and stay ´till the morning is night" but the journey of love is a rocky road and comes with many a spill he moved and pursued her for more than a year and then she said "I will" he made her a gift of a candlestick on their Wedding Day and written in silver around it the words, that said "Take me in your hands tonight, come through the parlor by candlelight, with thee I will wait this night, chase away shadows and stay ´till the morning is night" the candlestick was so much loved and admired but hundreds of years would go by ´twas there in an old curiosity shop Songtextethat they found it, forgotten by time blackened with age but soon to shine beauty from long ago and I often consider all those who have held it before "Take me in your hands tonight, come through the parlor by candlelight, with thee I will wait this night, chase away shadows and stay ´till the morning is night" chase away shadows and stay ´till the morning is night" Aus Songtexte Mania