Cathy's Lament
My hair entwined with briar roses,
Fingers trailed with cobweb,
My gown embedded with bramble thorns,
My eyes swore red with tears long wept
And far have I walked across this my home,
Desolate as it always was, and I alone
Stand waiting, my fingers poised
At the latch on your window
This time will you hear me?
I remember the Cragg where we used to venture
Those cold nights
Gimmerton graveyard, our morbid enchantment
The years past with you by my side
My devilish Gypsy Boy
And now the misty moors my only friends,
As I wander through the heath
Tracing the path walked
If I bang on the glass will you hear me?
Have you waited in torment, like you so wished me to do?
With you I wish I could be
For I can not live without my life
You were my mischief, you are my soul
A light I see at the window now!
'Let me in!'
I have walked for twenty years or more
My grave lies
Where the churchyard meets the open moor