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 port 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 they 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