The Cloud

Song The Cloud
Artist Bill Douglas
Album Celtic Sounds:Inspired by Tales of Middle Earth

Lyrics

The Cloud
Bill Douglas
Songs of Earth and Sky
[00:25.79] I am the daughter of Earth and Water
[00:30.15] And the nursling of the Sky;
[00:35.58] I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores
[00:41.67] I change, but I cannot die.
[00:46.87] For after the rain with never a stain
[00:52.48] The pavilion of Heaven is Gale,
[00:57.92] And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
[01:03.55] Build up the blue dome of air,
[01:09.08] I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
[01:14.89] And out of the caverns of rain,
[01:20.22] Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
[01:26.02] I arise and unbuild it again.
[01:33.64]
[01:56.52] I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
[02:01.57] From the seas and the streams;
[02:07.57] I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
[02:12.84] In their noonday dreams.
[02:18.64] From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
[02:24.23] The sweet buds every one,
[02:29.88] When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
[02:35.18] As she dances about the sun.
[02:41.07] I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
[02:46.59] And whiten the green plains under,
[02:52.19] And then again I dissolve it in rain,
[02:57.68] And laugh as I pass in thunder.
[03:04.82]
[03:50.57] I am the daughter of Earth and Water
[03:55.52] And the nursling of the Sky;
[04:01.40] I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores
[04:06.54] I change, but I cannot die.
[04:12.29] For after the rain with never a stain
[04:17.91] The pavilion of Heaven is Gale,
[04:23.47] And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
[04:28.85] Build up the blue dome of air,
[04:34.76] I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
[04:40.70] And out of the caverns of rain,
[04:45.96] Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
[04:51.77] I arise and unbuild it again.
[04:59.62]