Craft of Art Lyrics


In my craft of sullen art

In my craft of sullen art

Excercised in the still night

When only the moon rages

And the lovers lies abed

In my craft of sullen art

Excercised in the still night

When only the moon rages

And I became insane long interrvals of sanity

WITH With all their griefs

IN In theier arms

I I labour by

BY By singing light

Not for ambition of bread or the strut and trade of charms

On the ivory stages

But for the common wages

Not for ambition of bread or the strut and trade of charms

On the ivory stages

Of their most secret heart

Not, for the proud man apart

From the raging moon I write

On these spindrift pages

Not for the towering dead

With their nightingales and psalms

But for lovers, their arms

Round the griefs of their ages

Nor heed my craft or art

With their nightingales and psalms

But for lovers, their arms

Round the griefs of their ages

And I became insane long interrvals of sanity