The Forest Spring

The Forest Spring

Follow the ancient stone path

Beneath the wandering winds

Until you reach the forest green.

Deep inside the verdant forest

Where harmony has tamed the wild

Listen by the forest spring

Sleep and you will dream

The dream that every person dreams

When by this spring they lie

You'll hear the whisper of the spring

While you lay in slumber

You'll sleep from when you lie

Until two days sunrise is past

And when you wake your heart is set

You'll do the same as the others

You'll wander in the hope of gain

In the hope of gaining that which you dreamt

Twelve good men I've seen wasted such

But when a year does pass the day

When by this hidden spring they lay

Out of their conscious coma they arise

And back to the world their soul comes again

But wasted they are from the walking the walked

And well wept for the searching they endured

And still the same will happen again

Until fifty score more years have hence come

(Though the same has undoubtedly been for half a century)

And when the hundred years are up

The curse of the hidden forest spring

Shall be uplifted and out of the water

A woman whole and sorrowful shall arise

For she had, cruelly, time and time again

Turned away a devoted man

Who at her feet had asked for her return

Of their full emotion 

A wizard had enchanted her thus

That she would be a trickling spring

And though in a dream she appeared to each man

Begging him to free her from her shame 

Each man would look for a year, as the wizard decreed

And the sorrowing girl could always see them

And yet the wizard would never be found

And in turn for her cruelty

She would be deserted, and left

Until her hundred years are past

Then she will wander the earth until her time is passed

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