Stonecircle - The Jester\'s Song (cap And Bells) lyrics

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(lyrics adapted from W.B. Yeats/music by G. Schoemaker)<br />

The jester walked in the garden<br />

The garden had fallen still<br />

He bade his soul rise upward<br />

And stand on her window-sill<br />

It rose in a straight blue garment<br />

When owls began to call<br />

It had grown wise-tongued by thinking<br />

Of a quiet and light footfall<br />

But the young queen would not listen<br />

She rose in her pale night-gown<br />

She drew in the heavy casement<br />

And pushed the latches down<br />

He bade his heart go to her<br />

When the owls called out no more<br />

In a red and quivering garment<br />

It sang to her through the door, through the door<br />

Through the door, through the door<br />

"I have cap and bells," he pondered<br />

"I'll send them to her and die"<br />

And when the morning whitened<br />

He left them where she went by<br />

She laid them upon her bosom<br />

Under a cloud of her hair<br />

And her red lips sang them a love-song<br />

Till stars grew out of the air<br />

She opened her door and her window<br />

And the heart and soul came through<br />

To her right hand came the red one<br />

To her left hand came the blue<br />

They set up a noise like crickets<br />

A chattering wise and sweet<br />

And her hair was a folded flower<br />

And the quiet of love in her feet, in her feet<br />

In her feet, in her feet