Luyện nghe bài hát The Vision Of The Lady Of The Lake

The boatman to the sound of his heartbeat
Loud in the approach of the dawn
He through the window at mist on the lake
Which hung a shroud in the still of the morn
The cobwebs spun with the dew
from the bushes in filigree splendour
And lilies asleep on the lake
reflected so delicate, tranquil and tender.
The boat man sighed as he through the woods
To the place his boat lay moored to a stake
The hollow as his footsteps echoed
Until the sound was on the lake
He off, poling the boat from the shore
Peering a head through damp clinging
He that he saw strange swirling shapes
A on the eyes that the mist often plays.
So intent was the on crossing the lake
That he failed to the current that flowed
Leading his from familiar parts
He was firmly, yet somehow unknowingly,
All at once the mist to lift
Sufficient to the boatman a pool
That never seen in the whole of his life
Unnaturally deep, and silent, and cool.
The shirt clung to his back
He was sweating from exertion and fear
He had the sensation that someone was
He the presence of somebody near
An invisible prevented him moving
The strength of his arms was sapped
The twisted bushes converged round the
Like a in a net he was trapped.
Suddenly out of the before him
The wraith-like of a maiden appeared
Clad in shimmering radiant
The maiden materialised as she
The hair which finely crowned her
Was a halo of golden the sun
All of the beautiful women of
Were formed all at into one.
She handed the the sword she was holding
Which flashed irridescent his eyes
surely was hardly a match
For a sword that simple defies
The boatman stood transfixed by her
Which to the depths of his very soul
To he who conquer the evils of life
She offered as a whole.
The vanished before his gaze
Leaving him clutching the in his fist
The hairs on the nape of his seemed to stiffen
A creature him from out of the mist
It was powerful, huge and yet stupid
For it right back and failed to attack
The struck at its small stupid eyes
And it crashed to the and lay on its back.
a warning the sky seemed to blacken
As the sun were in total eclipse
The crouched low as a vast eagle swooped
And a horrified cry escaped from his
It strutted before him pride in its bearing
Admiring its talons both vicious and
Taking advantage the struck fast
And the eagle to the depths of the pool.
The terrified tried moving his boat
But his pole had roots in the watery deep
The bank grew alive the coils of a snake
And all you could was its slither and creep
It cast an envious at the boatman
Slid the water and swam to the boat
He stood hypnotised by its green eyes
As it from the water and coiled round his throat.
As its coils tightened slowly his breath in gasps
As he choked so he the sword in despair
As the snake was still gloating he its head
And in the snake's coils thrashed wild in the air
The boatman wiped the sweat his brow
His heart was pounding as before
His eyes like a lizard's tongue darted
Not daring to for a minute or more.
An involuntary shiver went up his
As he heard the of eerie howls
A wolf appeared on the of the pool
Saliva dripped from its loathsome
Hatred smouldered in his eyes
Which glowed coals from Hades fire
It seemed to grow as it and snarled
And watched as the boatman to tire.
It was almost as the wolf had learned
For it did not as the others had done
But bided its time the moment was right
And sprang as the boatman stared the sun
But the boatman too had learned to back
And his sword as though a knife
He plunged it deep into the heart
Then to his knees and prayed for his life.
As he felt a hand on his shoulder he
To find the maiden by his
She smiled and the world seemed to before him
He tried to speak but his was tied
You must plunge the sword into my heart
Lest I should into dust
She offered the boatman the of life
And love, if he but conquer lust.
She bared her before his eyes
The still was stricken dumb
He flung the sword back into the
Back to the depths which it had come
The water around him began to
The maiden began to away
His boat was swamped as the arose
And lived for another day.