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If I say, "Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light around me turn to night," darkness is not dark to thee, O Lord; the night is as bright as the day; darkness and light to thee are both alike. Psalm 139:10,11

We join our hands against the lengthening night:

two blue candles, a rose, another blue.

We sit at table in the candlelight,

chanting the ancient hymn, "O gracious Light."

We thank God for the old year and the new,

and join our hands against the lengthening night.

We bless and break according to the rite,

and pass the bread, and ladle out the stew,

sitting at table in the candlelight.

The candles burn; the flickering room is bright.

Darkness is never dark; the light shines through.

We join our hands against the lengthening night.

We eat and talk, the shadows never quite

abolishing the light. Dark is not true.

We sit at table in the candlelight.

Beloved to beloved, holding tight:

here we find strength to face the dark anew.

We sit at table in the candlelight,

and join our hands against the lengthening night.