A Fountain

Cross the clearing, devout, near the river I've known Lives abidingly there all that's left undone In the darkness of May I will leave with no one There was a fountain that I was never to drink from No longer desired, been feeling the silence for years All I had wanted and all I could think of was here In the evening, I ride through the fields unkind Every favorable thought will be cursed and fall Though the days were named mine, I had given them all Surely I knew in the end, it only would be gone No longer desired, been feeling the silence for years And all I had wanted and all I could think of was here What possessed me and held me before Are as nothing, a new love is born And we walked 'long the road, bright and fed Past the guards who were drunk off their heads Keeping watch in the distance for thieves Who will take 'cause the blind man can't see In the morning, the church bell he hears Has no meaning, but wished that it did Full of longing but doesn't know why With the loneliest years behind me, the world is right