La Gitana Lyrics - The Evil Beast - Aleister Crowley

Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced 

The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced 

In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel 

Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil 

In the pleasaunce of the roses with the fountains and the yews 

Where the snowy Sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews! 

In the starlight as we trembled from a laugh to a caress 

And the god came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse 

Was the Baile de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel 

Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel? 

For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns 

And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns 

Ah! my Gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain 

For the dance to turn to earnest?? O the sunny land of Spain! 

My Gitana, my Saliya! more delicious than a dove! 

With your hair aflame with roses and your lips alight with love! 

Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far 

From the sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star 

I shall find you, I shall have you! I am coming back again 

From the filth and fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain 

I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old 

With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold 

I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south 

With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth? 

With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! 

My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!