lirik lagu to the dead underneath my window - ghizela rowe - adelaide crapsey
how can you lie so still? all day i watch
and never a blade of all the green sod moves
to show where restlessly you toss and turn
and fling a desperate arm or draw up knees
stiffened and aching from their long disuse;
i watch all night and not one ghost comes forth
to take its freedom of the midnight hour
oh, have you no rebellion in your bones?
the very worms must scorn you where you lie
a pallid mouldering acquiescent folk
meek habitants of unresented graves
why are you there in your straight row on row
where i must ever see you from my bed
that in your mere dumb presence iterate
the text so weary in my ears: “lie still
and rest; be patient and lie still and rest.”
i’ll not be patient! i will not lie still!
there is a brown road runs between the pines
and further on the purple woodlands lie
and still beyond blue mountains lift and loom;
and i would walk the road and i would be
deep in the wooded shade and i would reach
the windy mountain tops that touch the clouds
my eyes may follow but my feet are held
recumbent as you others must i too
submit? be mimic of your movelessness
with pillow and counterpane for stone and sod?
and if the many sayings of the wise
teach of submission i will not submit
but with a spirit all unreconciled
flash an unquenched defiance to the stars
better it is to walk, to run, to dance
better it is to laugh and leap and sing
to know the open skies of dawn and night
to move untrammeled down the flaming noon
and i will clamour it through weary days
keeping the edge of deprivation sharp
nor with the pliant speaking on my lips
of resignation, sister to defeat
i’ll not be patient. i will not lie still
and in ironic quietude who is
the despot of our days and lord of dust
needs but, scarce heeding, wait to drop
grim casual comment on rebellion’s end;
“yes, yes . . wilful and petulant but now
as dead and quiet as the others are.”
and this each body and ghost of you hath heard
that in your graves do therefore lie so still
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