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Castle Abilene

Castle Abilene

So many years ago when I was young
And life was but a dream
An enchanted princess came to call
Upon the Castle Abilene 

From out the forest 
From out the cloud
From out the living dream
An enchanted princess came to call
Upon the Castle Abilene

And I at home among the stone
Did watch her watching me
Through the sloop
My arrows eye
O're the mote stood she

So sang her song
With voice so strong
My bridge could not help but fall
And like my brother, and so many other
We never left those walls

And I saw her there
The maiden fair
With question did I call
How can any be so beautiful? 
From whither did you come?

To leave me dumb no word to come
But silence offered she
Echo to attest address
Only wind between her and me

I say you there
Such maiden fair
With question again do I call
How can any be so beautiful? 
From whither did you come?

And without her voice
Without a song
Nor anything to hear
Through magic that enchantress
Sent her sentence to my ear

Unsay she,
Beauty boy is but a toy (you play with your eye)
Say whither did I come?
Beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the rising sun

Say I
And just as fast, I aghast  
How can anybody come
From beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the rising sun?

Then danced her hand
Towards the land
That kissed gently with the sky
Traced her path from the horizon
To her slowly closing eye

And pulled her dress
In soft caress
Creating her a vail
And through the lace
To see her face
As if her beauty put in jail

But I was so much younger then
That never had I known
That any such a loveliness
Could ever live so long

As any dove put in a cage 
Forced to be alone
Is the same as any castle walls
Cruelly built from stone

But as I say
Unto that day
I had never left those walls
Generation, generation
No stranger ever called

But the bridge now down
Her sweet sound
Unknowing crossed the mote 
And through ignorance of innocence
Right into the dragons throat

And in those halls the shadow called
So many years ago
When we were young
And life was fun
The lady came to fall

And in just one day 
Her breath betrayed
The Princess found her grave
Locked inside her prison
Poor bird at the bottom of her cage

So many years ago when I was young
And life was but a dream
An enchanted princess came to call
Upon the Castle Abilene 

From out the forest 
From out the cloud
From out the living dream
An enchanted princess came to call
Upon the Castle Abilene

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