Swinburne Stomp-The Fugs

[00:00.79]Sinburne Stomp Swinburne Stomp [00:03.17]Swinburne Stomp [00:05.28]Nobody stomps like the Swinburne Stomp [00:14.06]The Swinburne Stomp [00:21.63]Before the beginning of years [00:25.09]There came to the making of man [00:28.01]Time with a gift of tears [00:30.91]Grief, with a glass than ran [00:33.81]Pleasure, with pain for leaven [00:36.51]Summer, with flowers that fell [00:39.37]Remembrance fallen from heaven [00:42.06]And madness risen from hell [00:44.82]Strength without hands to smite [00:47.48]Love that endures for a breath: [00:50.22]Night, the shadow of light [00:52.96]And life, the shadow of death [00:55.60]And the high gods took in hand [00:58.30]Fire, and the falling of tears [01:00.86]And a measure of sliding sand [01:03.31]From under the feet of the years [01:05.71]And froth and drift of the sea [01:08.25]And dust of the laboring earth [01:10.54]And bodies of things to be [01:12.96]In the houses of death and of birth; [01:15.29]And wrought with weeping and laughter [01:17.78]And fashioned with loathing and love [01:20.05]With life before and after [01:22.37]And death beneath and above, [01:24.85]For a day and a night and a morrow [01:27.29]That his strength might endure for a span [01:29.93]With travail and heavy sorrow [01:33.01]The holy spirit of man. [01:36.22]From the winds of the north and the south [01:39.10]They gathered as unto strife [01:41.65]They breathed upon his mouth [01:44.33]They filled his body with life [01:46.95]Eyesight and speech they wrought [01:49.50]For the veils of the souls within [01:51.90]A time for labor and thought [01:54.67]A time to serve and to sin; [01:57.35]They gave him light in his ways [01:59.95]And love and space for delight [02:02.55]And beauty and length of days [02:05.05]And night, and sleep in the night [02:07.72]His speech is a burning fire [02:12.23]With his lips he travaileth [02:14.94]In his heart is a blind desire [02:17.99]In his eyes foreknowledge of death [02:21.59]He weaves and is clothed in derision [02:27.54]He sows and she shall not reap [02:30.53]His life is a watch or a vision [02:34.63]Between a sleep and a sleep