set your compass
hackett, steve
underneath a sailing moon
lemon lime ginger soft glow
scale the woodland around the dale
rising falling through hedgerows
with her train the queen of night
from the long arms of the sea
set your compass by your dream
grazing sheep have lost their way
fifty fathoms below the bay
windward of the sunken rock
faces set like gravestones
oarsmen pull to cleave the brine
neath the blackcliffs their cross-bones
under the waves and put to right
toy armies too rusty to fight
cling to the wheel how deeply you breathe
set your compass by your dream
grazing sheep have lost their way
fifty fathoms below the bay