There's a love in my life

Neither mistress nor wife

And she waits for me every morning by

the sea

Where the fishing hawk wheels

And the sun warms the seals

There she lays at her silent anchorage for me

She is fine, she is fleet

She will run, reach, or beat

With a song in her rigging and her sails

And when day is done

We will lay to as one

And sleep 'neath the rolling rhythm of

the stars

And we sail away

Off to Jericho Bay

Where the blue of the sea meets the sky

And the songs that she sings me

It brings me such peace

When the seas rise up angry and high

She's a friend of mine

The minstrel

There are loons off to port

And the porpoises sport

In her wake as she breaks the rolling main

And with the wind in her sails

We will run with the whales

As they swim through their dark

diminishing domain

And we sail away

Off to Jericho Bay

Where the blue of the sea meets the sky

And the songs that she sings me

It brings me such peace

When the seas rise up angry and high

She's a friend of mine

The minstrel