Summer Solstice

Summer Is Icumen In

(from 'The Wicker Man' Film)


Summer is Icumen in

Loudly sing cuckoo

Grows the seed and blows the mead

And springs the wood anew

Sing cuckoo

Ewe bleats harshly after lamb

Cows after calves make moo

Bullock stamps and deer champs

Now shrilly sing cuckoo

Cuckoo, cuckoo

Wild bird are you

Be never still cuckoo

The Lord Of The Longest Of Days

by Charles E S Fairey


From the darkness of Genesis you came

The heart of the world forever aflame

With each rising, a new day is proclaimed,

The Aten, you were symbolically named,

Strengthen our souls with your Mighty Rays

Now with your power our eyes ablaze.

Your eternal passage through the sky

You look down upon us, hunting falcons fly,

Your powers, etheric ascendant high

You, The World’s radiant fiery eye,

The Lord of the Longest of Days

Forever we obey your omnipotent gaze.


Each day your beams we embrace

Knowledge seen in your golden face,

Forever in the hearts of the earthly race

Imbue us with your heavenly grace,

Strengthen our souls with your Mighty Rays

Now with your power our eyes ablaze.

Illuminate our being with your Wisdom

Allow us to enter your Sun filled Kingdom

So our lives are full and wholesome

Guard us from the immortal phantom,

The Lord of the Longest of Days

Forever we obey your omnipotent gaze.


Empower our hearts with You

Oh Mighty Ra, or Sunny Lugh,

Teach us everything you ever know or knew

Colour our minds with your kaleidoscopic hue,

Strengthen our souls with your Mighty Rays

Now with your power our eyes ablaze.

Absorb us into your sacred story

So we may ascend our souls with Solar glory,

So we may stamp our demons with fiery fury

So we may sit on God’s stone of Porphyry,

The Lord of the Longest of Days

Forever we obey your omnipotent gaze.

Your yellow golden and red wheel of fire

Your rays an array of angelic sire,

Our words we offer up our eternal choir

We light our beacon and our bonfire,

Ra, Helios, Sol, Aten we admire

Lugh’s abilities we hope to acquire,

Strengthen our souls with your Mighty Rays

Now with your power our eyes ablaze.


Each Solstice we remember thee

As you light again the World Tree,

The Worlds Here, Above and Below, Three

From your sky throne, all you see,

Up above you will always reign and be

Guard the worlds with your veiling key,

Purify our phantoms, cleanse we

Fill our loved ones with solar glee,

Set our lives, hate and chains free.

You, The inspiration of the first monotheists

The greatest of all among the polytheists,

The Star, The Father of the Earth

Watching over us since the World’s birth,

Let us see within your flame filled sphere

Hear our prayers with your all hearing ear,

As we celebrate with warmth and cheer

Great Aten’s Day the Summer Solstice,

A day of Rebirth, the dance, the mystery invocative,

As the circle turns once more, The Great Wheel of the Year,

Strengthen our souls with your Mighty Rays

Now with your power our eyes ablaze,

The Lord of the Longest of Days

Forever we obey your omnipotent gaze.