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The Watchman

from Canopy by MJ Cyr

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lyrics

There was once a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his beloved,
and wasted in the fire of remoteness. From the rule of love, his heart was empty of patience, and his body weary of his spirit; he reckoned life without her as a mockery, and time consumed him away. How many a day he found no rest in longing for her; how many a night the pain of her kept him from sleep; his body was worn to a sigh, his heart’s wound had turned him to a cry of sorrow.

He had given a thousand lives for one taste of the cup of her presence, but it availed him not. The doctors knew no cure for him, and companions avoided his company;
yea, physicians have no medicine for one sick of love, unless the favor of the beloved one deliver him.

At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following;

then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one.
And the wretched one cried from his heart, (...)

“Surely this watchman is Izrá’íl, my angel of death, following so fast upon me; (...)

His feet carried him on, the one bleeding with the arrow of love, and his heart lamented. Then he came to a garden wall, and with untold pain he scaled it,
for it proved very high; and forgetting his life, he threw himself down to the garden.

And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer,

crying: “O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman,

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from Canopy, track released April 29, 2012
MJ Cyr - vocals/guitaa/harmonica
Dave Murray - bass/guitar
Ben Standage - Drums

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