Dust of the rivers does murmur and weep   Hard and sharp laughter that cuts to the bone   Ah, but every face within your face does show   Going gladly now to give himself his own      And twelve yellow willows shall fellow the shallows   Small waves and thunder be my pillow   Upon the gleaming water two swans that swim   And every place shall be my native home      The east gate like a fortress dissolve it away   The west gate like a prison, oh, come break it down   Island, I remember, living here   Wandering beneath the empty skies      In time her hair grew long and swept the ground   And seven blackbirds carried it out behind   It bore the holy imprint of her mind   As greenfoot slow, she moved among the seasons      The great man, the great man   Historians his memory   Artists, his senses, thinkers, his brain   Labourers, his growth, explorers, his limbs      And soldiers his death each second   And mystics his rebirth each second   Businessmen, his nervous system   No-hustle men his stomach      Astrologers, his balance, lovers, his loins   His skin it is all patchy   But soon will reach one glowing hue      God is his soul, infinity, his goal   The mystery, his source   And civilisation, he leaves behind   Opinions are his fingernails      Maya, Maya, all this world is but a play   Be thou the joyful player   Maya, Maya, all this world is but a play   Be thou the joyful player      The wanderer no sense does make   His eyes being tied in the true love's knot   The trees perceive his soul   Do not detain him long      Dear little animal, dark-eyed and small   Caring for your fur with pointed paws   This hawk of truth is swift and flies with a still cry   A small sweet meat to the eyes of night      Oh, dandelion be thou thine   Reflecting the sun in sexual glory   In ever changing tongues   The ever changing story      The book, man, bird, woman, serpent, sea, sun   Blessed, oh, blessed are they of the air   Your eyes, they are the eyes of the glad land   Ye twelve that will enter the seasons      The great ship, the ship of the world, long time sailing   Mariners, mariners, gather your skills   The great ship, the ship of the world, long time sailing   Mariners, mariners, gather your skills      Jesus and Hitler and Richard, the lion heart   Three kings and Moses and Queen Cleopatra   The Cobbler, the maiden, the mender and the maker   The sickener and the twitcher and the glad undertaker      The shepherd of willows   The harper and the archer   All sat down in one boat together   Troubled voyage in calm weather      Maya, Maya, all this world is but a play   Be thou the joyful player   Maya, Maya, all this world is but a play