Raglan Road Songtext
von David Hobson

On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way
And I said, "Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."


On Grafton Street in November
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of ancient pledge
The Queen of Art still making tarts
And I not making hay
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away

I gave her gifts of the mind
I gave her the secret signs
That′s known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint I did not stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May


On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should
A creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay
He'll lose his wings at the dawn of day