Tonight’s Dark Devotion is drawn from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare — the song “Come Away, Come Away, Death,” sung by Feste in Act II, Scene IV.

Though Twelfth Night is often remembered as a comedy, this moment pauses the play’s brightness and allows grief to speak plainly. Love imagines its own burial. Devotion asks to be laid quietly in the dark, unmarked and unremembered.

This is a soft-spoken, live-ish reading offered as part of our 28 Nights of Dark Devotion — a series exploring love, longing, sacrifice, and return in their quieter, shadowed forms.

🎧 Recording notes:

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– Recorded live in OBS with Elgato face cam + Presonus M7

– Evolving thunderstorm ambiance by mynoise.net