The Minstrel

There's a love in my life
Neither mistress or wife
And she waits for me
Every morning by the sea
Where the fishing hawk wheels
And the sun warms the seals
There she lays at her
Silent anchorage for me

She is fine, she is fleet
She will run, reach or beat
With a song in her rigging
And her sails
And when day is done
We will lay two as one
And sleep 'neath the
Rolling rhythm of the stars

And we sail away
Off to Jericho Bay
Where the blue of the sea
Meets the sky
And the song that she sings me
It brings me such peace
When the seas rise up
Angry and high
She's a friend of mine
~ The Minstrel

There are loons off to por
And the porpoises sport
In her wake as she breaks
The rolling main
And with the wind in her sails
We will run with the whales
As they swim through their dark
Diminishing domain

And we sail away
Off to Jericho Bay
Where the blue of the sea
Meets the sky
And the song that she sings me
It brings me such peace
When the seas rise up
Angry and high
She's a friend of mine
~ The Minstrel

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~