Keeper of abbeys,
his name was carved in the grey stone,
it was the angel of the north.
Reaching for a last
remnant of the light;
it catches the high stones.
He came down from the moors,
he'd seen much better days,
he set himself to the rain.
Keeper of abbeys,
his name was carved in the grey stone,
it was the angel of the north.
Reaching for the light
rising like the cooling towers
of the edgelands.
Weathered like the stone,
long ago he set himself to the rain.
Keeper of abbeys,
his name was carved in the grey stone,
it was the angel of the north.
In his eyes,
the embers of love,
fading and failing,
if you look close
if you look hard,
you can see the traces.
He has become the stones;
weathered to fall
reaching for the last
dying ray of light
in a valley in the north
where a river runs its course.
(he had wanted to travel...)
Keeper of Abbeys
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28 Years A Boy in Darkness A Giddy Thing Albion Perfide Along the Ridgeway Big Empty Skies Brooklands Brushed Aside Cloudless And Starry And Still Curator of Butterflies East Coast Racer Fell Asleep Folklore Hedgerow Judas Unrepentant Last Train Leopards London Plane Lost Rivers of London Master James of St George Master James of St George (Live At Real World) Mr Boxgroveman Out Of It Pretty Mom Reaching For John Dowland Right To The End Of The World Tra-La Salisbury Giant Seen Better Days Shipping Forecast Summoned by Bells Swan Hunter Telling the Bees The First Rebreather The Permanent Way The Transit of Venus Across the Sun The Underfall Yard Uncle Jack Upton Heath Victorian Brickwork Wassail Winchester Diver Winchester From St Giles’ Hill Winkie Worked Out
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