All Souls Hill

I remember the day the games began

And the hills themselves crackled and sang

And news was brought by stone and water

Of wind and her daughter

And a child was dancing under the sky

With gods for companions, I saw with my eye

Dryads and naiads and all their clan

In the company of Pan

Call it strange: we live, we die

All may change in the wink of an eye

And I recall your dread of the gathering clouds

The way you recoiled from the cape of the crowd

When the shouts and the rage and the sudden fear

Failed to disappear

Yet the touch of your hair as it brushed my cheek

And you telling me no, don't sing, don't speak

And your skin so warm in the dark alive night

And the stars bright

Call it strange: we live, we die

All may change in the wink of an eye

I remember your face in the broken black time

In the wreck of the world, when love was a crime

A monstrous lie told by a charlatan choir

And a man on fire

Then the bodies burned and the cities bled

And the courthouse fell and innocence fled

When into our minds, unbidden, unsought

Came the Great Thought

It dropped into your heart where the lover is found

And there it took root, and there was it crowned

And you and I stood on All Soul's Hill

Breathing still

Call it strange: we live, we die

All may change in the wink of an eye

Call it strange: we live, we die

All may change in the wink of an eye