Stonecircle The Jester's Song (cap And Bells)
(lyrics adapted from W.B. Yeats/music by G. Schoemaker) The jester walked in the garden The garden had fallen still He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill It rose in a straight blue garment When owls began to call It had grown wise-tongued by thinking Of a quiet and light footfall But the young queen would not listen She rose in her pale night-gown She drew in the heavy casement And pushed the latches down He bade his heart go to her When the owls called out no more In a red and quivering garment It sang to her through the door, through the door Through the door, through the door "I have cap and bells," he pondered "I'll send them to her and die" And when the morning whitened He left them where she went by She laid them upon her bosom Under a cloud of her hair And her red lips sang them a love-song Till stars grew out of the air She opened her door and her window And the heart and soul came through To her right hand came the red one To her left hand came the blue They set up a noise like crickets A chattering wise and sweet And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in her feet, in her feet In her feet, in her feet
