On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

The verse frames Hanukkah as a movement from darkness into shared illumination: a “first dark night” answered by the deliberate act of kindling a candle. Beyond the holiday’s literal candle-lighting, the speaker treats light as an invitation into intimacy and community—“invite / To dance within that gentle light.” The slightly archaic, courtly phrasing (“I’ll you, if you will me invite”) suggests a playful, formal reciprocity: warmth and companionship are offered, but only through mutual welcome. In this reading, the candle becomes both ritual symbol and metaphor for human connection—an insistence that celebration is most fully realized when light is made together and enjoyed together.