Flower of the Briar

Lyrics

To the heart of the thunder, the herat of my sorrow Flower of the Briar Come storm sea and gales out-howl all these words of me Flower of the Briar And my tears and salt sea spray Flower of the Briar Where the grey gulls and the white gulls Fall wing-torn and wounded At the teeth of the rain Where the grey waves and the white waves Bitter as the grave's edge Bewail with the sea's rage The world and its pain That this tide should cleave us But a little while Come shipwreck come shelter come flower of the morning Flower of the Briar Where gates that are broken and gold as September Flower of the Briar Leave old roads their winding Flower of the Briar From farthings and flinders And days locked in doggerel Or smoored in bland stone Let love learned from jurymen Marksmen and traitors Cough away behind hand In the hovel of bone That this road should bind us But a little while I wish I could see by the light moon and the dark moon Flower of the Briar Beyond the whore's kiss, beyond the nun's pardon Flower of the Briar Where fair is unfading Flower of the Briar And the lave I give keepless The grief and its fury The life and its fire By the knife-blade of honesty O touchless and snaring By the dream and its emptiness Flower of the Briar