Lizard (a. Prince Rupert Awakes; b. Bolero - the Peacock's Tale;
Prince Rupert Awakes Farewell the temple master's bells His kiosk and his black wormseed Courtship solely of his word With Eden guaranteed. For now Prince Rupert's tears of glass Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed Scar the sacred tablet wax On which the Lizards feed.
Wake your reasons' hollow vote Wear your blizzard season coat Burn a bridge and burn a boat Stake a Lizard by the throat
Go Polonius or kneel The reapers name their harvest dawn All your tarnished devil's spoons Will rust beneath our corn. Now bears Prince Rupert's garden roam Across his rain tree shaded lawn Lizard bones become the clay - And there a Swan is born
Wake your reasons' hollow vote Wear your blizzard season coat Burn a bridge and burn a boat Stake a Lizard by the throat
Gone soon Piepowder's moss-weed court Round which upholstered Lizards sold Visions to their leaden flock Of rainbows' ends and gold New tales Prince Ruppert's peacock brings Of walls and trumpets thousand fold Prophets chained for burning masks And reels of dream unrolled ...back to top Bolero - The Peacock's Tale back to top The Batle Of Glass Tears including: Dawn Song Last Skirmish Prince Puppert's Lament
Night enfolds her cloak of holes Around the river meadow. Old moon-light stalks by brocken ploughs Hides spokeless wheels in shadows. Sentries lean on thorn wood spears Blow on their hands, stare eastwards.
Burnt with dream and taut with fear Dawn's misty shawl upon them. Three hills apart great armies stir Spit oath and curse as day breaks Forming lines of horse and steel By even yards march forward.