Based on 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
From Shalott there was a lady fair With pallid skin and auburn hair And a life with dreams beyond repair A hope, a faith crushed by despair By the corrupt city of Camelot This tale of fate and death once told From long before and times of old That grips the heart and keeps a hold But patience as the truth unfolds The truth about Shalott The story ended with watery fate Yet still there is more to tell of late And for the truth she did but wait Untill that sign led her to hate That greedy city of Camelot And from each side the mirror's crack'd But still as whole from the impact Her woven lies do read as fact And so mere mortals do react In fear of our Shalott She knew prolonged death was to be But waiting was shear agony Yet still her eyes her mirror did see The gentle passing of a bee On flight to fatal Camelot The boat tied now beneath her sill On waves once harsh enough to kill Instead they sit now; gentle, still Almost as if against her will The will of fair Shalott Her focus on her task at hand A web of lies in string was planned Her life was shown, a grain of sand Her luck she was yet to understand But still she craved Camelot And now the weather drew near a storm But no one did this lady warn There in the mirror a feather drawn And scent of man to her was born The sin of that Shalott Pure and true as Camelot was he From whence he came to hold the key With him, her fate was destiny Worse than death upon the sea He swore by truthful Camelot A mortal knight will turn to dust Lancelot's gold will all but rust Thank for her sake there holds a just A curse of old prohibits his lust He cannot touch Shalott To him she's just "a lovely face" That shies and smiles, stays in place In which his company is terrible waste A merciful God needs more haste To redeem the debris of Camelot And patience now as truth beguiled* Does come to us like little child Thats soft and gentle, meek and mild That's free to spread and run as wild About the Lady of Shalott. *beguiled can mean either to decieve or to charm |