Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen & Canadian Poetry

Beside the Shepherd

Beside the shepherd

Beside the shepherd dreams the beast of laying down with lions
The youth puts away his singing reed
And strokes the consecrated flesh

Glory, glory, shouts the grass
Shouts the brick, as from the cliff
The gorgeous fallen sun
Rolls slowly on the promised city

Naked running through the mansion
The boy with news of the messiah
Forgets the message for his father
Enjoying the marble against his feet

Well finally it has happened
Imagines someone in another house
Staring one more minute out his window
Before waking up his wife



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Other Album Tracks

  1. For Wilf and His House
  2. Beside the Shepherd
  3. Poem
  4. Lovers
  5. The Sparrows
  6. Warning
  7. Les Vieus
  8. Elegy
  9. Like an Old Proud King in a Parable
  10. A Hyacinth for Edith

All Album Tracks: Leonard Cohen & Canadian Poetry >

Altri album

  1. Under The Marble (Live New York '85)
  2. You Want it Darker (Satori Remix (Radio Edit)) - Single
  3. Teacher Of The Heart (Live)
  4. Songs of Fire and Ice (Live 1988)
  5. Freedom Soon Will Come (Live 1988)
  6. Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2022)
  7. A Poet In Germany (Live 1979)
  8. Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums
  9. From The Silence (Live 1993)
  10. A Poet In Amsterdam (Live)

All Albums of Leonard Cohen >

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