The shadows tumble bluely I love you only love you truly With your face all full of stars And your heart held out like a tin cup To catch the rain We come flashing into blindness Where the midnight twins and twines us With our silverpaper mouths Printing light against the ashes Of the light How does love come down? Soft as sunset lights the wings of birds How does love come down? Blurring all the edges of the world Hush the clockwork of the cradle Hush the loom and still the treadle In the silence press your ear Against my chest and hear That tiny hammer fall The quiet fury of our dreaming The starry horsemen gone careening In the blue teeth of the gas stove In the soft unnumbered falling Of the moon Where the shadows tumble bluely I love you only love you truly With your face all full of stars And your heart held out like a tin cup To catch the rain