The White Stag of Winter's Vigil
By FeatherForge
[Intro - Spoken Word ]
In the aspen grove, where the cold winds sleep,
A pale stag walks in a deep moonlight.
Villagers kneel, their voices low,
Offering gifts for a hearth’s warm glow.
The legends say she is no mere beast,
But a goddess of harvests and of feasts.
Bound to her grove, she waits alone,
For a love that time has overthrown.
[Verse - Lead Vocals]
Beneath the ashen trees of white and gold,
Where silence hums and secrets unfold,
The starlit stag moves with timeless grace,
Yet her eyes betray an ancient face.
[Background vocals/Choir echoes]
(Bless our hearths, bless our fields,
Oh, white stag, our fates are sealed!
So hear our plea and become our shield!)
[Verse]
A wreath of holly lain at her feet,
An offering made, a prayer complete.
Her breath is frost, her gaze serene,
A goddess cloaked in mortal sheen.
[Chorus, powerful and moderating up with each line]
Oh, White Stag of Winter’s Vigil!!!
Guardian of the aspen spires!
We give our warmth, our songs, our hope,
To light this year’s dying fires!
[Background vocals/Choir echoes]
(White Stag! Winter’s light!
Keeper of the endless night!
Bless us with your holy might!)
[Female vocalist. Verse]
The villagers leave, their whispers fade,
She walks alone in the grove’s cascade.
Her heart is heavy, her soul confined,
Chained by a love fate left behind.
[Female vocalist]
(Oh where are you, my dear heart of flame?
Where is the soul that calls my name?
Must I forever endure this pain?)
[Male vocalist]
Through centuries of frost and snow,
She’s waited for the one she knows.
A lover lost to time’s cruel hand,
A bond unbroken, though worlds expand.
[Bridge]
[Female vocalist. Spoken Word & Instrumental Build]
(Once, he promised me the spring,
And the stars to crown my brow.
But the stars have grown dim,
And the spring is forever delayed.
Yet I wait… I wait beneath the trees,
For the promise that never fades.)
[Instrumental Break: Soaring guitar solo with orchestral layers and choral build-up]
[Chorus, Full Choir with Orchestral Accompaniment]
Oh, White Stag of Winter’s Vigil!!!
Bound by love, by loss, by fire!
We see your tears, your frozen dreams,
Your heart a hymn on a lonely lyre!
[Background vocals/Choir echoes]
(White Stag! Winter’s flame!
Calling out a sacred name!
Shall your unrest remain untamed?)
[Refrain - Repetition with Variations optional]
[Background vocals/Choir echoes]
(Bless our hearths, bless our fields,
Oh, white stag, our fates are sealed!
So hear our plea and become our shield!)
[Background vocals/Choir echoes, louder and triumphant]
(White Stag! Winter’s light!
Keeper of the endless night!
Bless us with your holy might!)
[Male vocalist]
The frost gives way to a grove alight,
As a shadow emerges from the night.
A voice like a psalm, his face a flame,
And at last, she hears him call her name.
[Female vocalist, Triumphant]
(You’ve returned, my heart, my soul,
Through time and winter’s cruelest toll.
Together again, we banish despair,
And our grove shall bloom through love’s repair.)
[Background vocals/Choir swells]
(Winter’s light! Eternal spring!
The stag ascends, the forest sings!
And joy spreads upon fluttered wings!)
[Outro – Choir & Instrumental Fade]
Bless our hearths, bless our fields…
Oh, White stag, your fate is healed!
Now in your grace, our hearts are steeled!
[Soft piano and strings conclude, with the gentle fading of an electric guitar]
