Gypsy Hymn

The ferryman brought me with mind open, dreaming

We cut the depths with laughter

Stayed with my youth that god’s tooth cut when weaning

Now and ever after

The will of the void is to shape and name forms

Our dance was never done then

I remember you well from before you were born

My chance was never won then

I burnt the sports pages as I already knew the score

Put faith in the fire forever and evermore

Your colors of autumn, you're burnished with gold there

And standing in the rhythm

This circle of trees, and the full wish we told there

Truthful as a prism

I looked at the mystery and all she evoked

My patron saint stood near her

But the mystery walked, and the mystery spoke

My saint said, “never fear her.”

Now mab is my queen

Oh, and mab is my chief

Mab is my root now

And strong trunk, and branch to the leaf

The circle remains and still from its past

Now waiting, now singing, now flying half mast

She is, and she’s whole

Oh, I'll love, love again

I’ll know my song well, each dying refrain

Each cadence, and twist well observed in its harmony

Silence come clean, pull stillness for our lady

Gypsy hymn sing me slow

And tenderly bear me on your west wind blow

Your gypsy hymn let me flow

And sing me again before you got to go

Sing me again before you got to go