My name is Jacob Fleet,
I feel the solid world
Revolve beneath my feet,
I stride over plains,
Through the copse
And through the glade…
I pace through the day
And a voice tells me
‘Never stop, never stay,
Don’t let your shadow fade’
I scale the steeple streets,
All empty but for song
Wood-smoke and Sabbath meat,
I pace down the lanes
If I stop my shadow fades…
I walk and I pray
And the wind tells me
‘Oh come back home again’
And the hedges began to hum
And the hedges began to hum
‘Never stop, never stay,
Don’t let your shadow fade’
My name is Jacob Fleet,
I walk the golden mist
Of Alabaster Street,
My scant figure strays
Through the lost
White lilac lanes
Where heavens angels prey…
But I will not stop or stay,
I rage into the day
And the wind tells me
‘Oh come back home again’
And the hedges began to hum
And the hedges began to hum
‘Never stop, never stay,
Don’t let your shadow fade.’
I saw a girl standing by a pail,
I heard the tell-tale wind
In the windmill sails