Monday, 21 October 2013

Rest















Lay Down Your Sweet and Weary Head
my love, go to your final rest
laid gentle in that earthen bed
with flowers crushed upon your breast
Though many things remained unsaid
your love so true and oft expressed
will see me through till I am dead
and joined with you in heaven bless'd



Walk Away

















I love you dear with all my heart
yet cannot my true love display
as you are to another sworn
so I must turn and walk away

You love me too and tell me so
a sister till my dying day
a love that breaks my heart in two
so I must turn and walk away

Some day I'll find someone to love
whose passion turns my night to day
but now I'm blinded by your light
so I must turn and walk away




and as I walk part of me dies
The world is dark to my poor eyes
but I can see stars in the skies...



Friday, 18 October 2013

It's Winter now













It's Winter now
The sickly sun is slow to rise
and then bare overtops my head
Though at its height in leaden skies
the heat that's giv'n is quickly shed
and any light it brings to eyes
from where all hope of spring has fled
is lost, as quickly daylight dies
and sun goes early to its bed.

It's winter now
The snow is deep on field and fen
the land is iron hard and cold
Fell creatures stalk the lands of men
like those from ancient stories told
And autumn's bounty laid down then
by prudent folk in hidden hold
grows less and less in lair and den
and rich men learn they can't eat gold

It's winter now
As hard it was, it's harder now
and young and old are first to go
The babes just fade and old allow
themselves one last walk in the snow
The few survivors wonder how
they will get by when all they know
is gone and darkness does endow
the frozen night with fears that grow

It's winter now
It's winter now and silence reigns
Nobody lived to tell this tale
The people died, all that remains
is fallen stone and broken rail
But what was lost another gains
as wolves run fat in this lost vale
and never roam the frozen plains
so other villages prevail


Spring

Summer

Autumn