I’m the Charnel Boy, Bone inspector, Unpaid pagan spectral rector. Sheep grass boy with lupine whine, Wood stained skin and eyes incarnadine, And eyes and eyes incarnadine Incarnad-eyes incarnadine. I tend. . Tend the Tutankhamens of England, And visit every barrow sooner or later, I’m the ancient king curator. Move like a mist, like a will-o’-the-wisp, I’m the archetypal archeologist. Every night at a different charnel ground I make my ritual habitual rounds From rolling southern downs To winding northern wall, To barn owl’s hoot, goat-sucker’s call, I search and scrape across the landscape. Move like a mist, like a will-o’-the-wisp Move like a mist, like a will-o’-the-wisp Move like a mist, like a will-o’-the-wisp. But water-meadows bog me down, I’ve got to be on the whistling High ground, Where I smell out barrow bones, Like a lurcher smells out rodent’s hidden homes Like a lurcher smells out hidden homes Like a lurcher smells out hidden homes . .