Listen, Learn, Read On

In ages past, when spells were cast

In a time of men in steel

When a man was taught no special thing

It was all done by feel

So listen

So learn

So read on

You got to turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

Hear the song of lovely Joan

Her sound so sweet and clear

In the courtroom of the King

Among children and the peers

So listen

So learn

So read on

You got to turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

Now hear ye the words of Taliesyn

On the foaming beach of the ocean

In the day of trouble

I shall be of more service to thee

Than three hundred salmon

The hare, he bounds across the page

Past castles white and fair

Past dreaming chessmen on their boards

With a fool's mate as a snare

So listen

So learn

So read on

You got to turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

Three times I have been born

I know this from meditation

The bird, he flies the distance

From pages two to six

Past minstrels in their boxes

To the waters of the Styx

So listen

So learn

So read on

You got to turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

Don't take the pictures lightly

Listen to their sound

For from their coloured feeling

Experience is found

So listen

So learn

So read on

You got to turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn

All the sciences of the world

Are collected in my breast

For I know what has been, what is now

And what hereafter will occur