Moonlight Serenade

Understand the night When she flashes her sparkling eyes at dusk She flirts with twilight When the noise of day dies away The night and twilight stay and stay Making quiet love up high over the town And the gentle twilight gives his light Making a queen of night If I could I would write a sonnet of the night as a remembrance of your eyes And, if you'd promise not to tell I could whisper the words in the dark, like a lover We could count the stars, the shooting stars Talk of lovers through the ages who had lived out of their dreams Such will and courage, they needed to live in a dream To burn, with every breath so serene As if they had been the first to find love at all Like night and twilight They were the first of lovers ever Could we be like them? Hold on to one another until dawn comes Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight, kiss again My love My one and only love Let me take you out under the moonlight And show how the twilight loves the night Why he lives for an hour of loving through lifetimes of longing And sings his moonlight serenade