SONG LYRIC

At Rest

Homage to Yeats

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At Rest (for Yeats)

This poem, and the ensuing melody (though the melody came first) is inspired by, and is a tribute to, W.B. Yeats: brought alive by his poem, “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.”

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

For months after I came across this poem I read anything Yeats I could lay my hands on, because in my book this Yeats’ poem is one of the finest ever written.

Hence the tribute.

The Words:

Fair and fertile fallow and all that be furled then hurled then unfurled this moment

Sought and caught though never caught the fading heart replies to seed and heed the seed and think to let the thought embrace the seeding

Touch the tongue that trembles the hurt to hide to see the seen and unseen and certain

Found and bound though never bound take heart my heart take flight take wing and bring the wing to touch the lives and sacred lives surrounding

Frail and free though rarely free the fraught the fought the taught rebel

And so I dare to plant my share of heart to see the heartless hearted

Seed and Heed and Heed indeed your heart

Borders bend before us and fade to rest wrought and taught now untaught forever

Born unborn yet ever born my always heart take flight take wing and bring the wing to touch the wing and touch of wing surrounding

The Music:

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