The Ancient Track Songtext
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There was no hand to hold me back
That night
I found
The ancient track
Over the hill
And strained to see
The fields that teased
My memory
This tree
That wall
I knew them well
And all the roofs and orchards fell
Familiarly upon my mind

As from a past
Not far behind
I knew what shadows would be cast
When the late moon came
Up at last
From back of Zaman′s Hill, and how


The vale would shine three hours from now
And when
The path
Grew steep and high
And seemed
To end
Against the sky
I had no fear
Of what might rest
Beyond that silhouetted crest
Straight on I walked
While all the night
Grew pale with phosphorescent light

And wall and farmhouse
Gable glowed
Unearthly by the climbing road
There was the milestone
That I knew
Two miles to Dunwich
Now the view
Of distant spire and roofs
Would dawn
With ten more upward
Paces gone


Arrrrghhhhh
There was no hand
To hold me back
That night I found the ancient track
And reached the crest
To see outspread
A valley of
The lost
And
Dead