Jacob Fleet - And Also the Trees

My name is Jacob Fleet

I feel the solid world

Revolve beneath my feet

I stride over plains

Through the copse

And through the glade…

I pace through the day

And a voice tells me

'Never stop, never stay

Don’t let your shadow fade'

I scale the steeple streets

All empty but for song

Wood-smoke and Sabbathe meat

I pace down the lanes

If I stop my shadow fades…

I walk and I pray

And the wind tells me

'Oh come back home again'

And the hedges began to hum

'Never stop, never stay

Don’t let your shadow fade.'

My name is Jacob Fleet

I walk the golden mist

Of Alabaster Street

My scant figure strays

Through the lost

Withe lilac lanes

Where heavens angels prey…

But I will not stop or stay

I rage into the day

And the wind tells me

'Oh come back home again'

And the hedges began to hum

'Never stop, never stay

Don’t let your shadow fade.'

I saw a girl standing by a pail

I heard the tell-tale wind

In the windmill sail