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Spent a day in this marvelous garden about an hour's drive north of Rome, called Villa Lanta in Bagnaia. Met Neptune.

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Neptune's Garden

I tried so hard to find you
In the grove of olive trees
Through the turrets of the castle
But you hid yourself away.

It’s a simple thing to think of
And the hardest thing to do
When you’re heart’s completely flustered
And you know you cannot choose.

And your beard is growing lichen
And you give a stony stare
But your eyes never leave me
They follow everywhere.

And I think, if I’m crafty
I’ll turn, and see you move
But though I try, I cannot
And so, I guess I lose

So leave you to your cool
Green mossy pedestal
Where heart sick girls toss coins
While they sit and tell

You all about their sorrows
Brave knights that never came
Abandoned by true love
And forever curse it’s name

And I have just enough wisdom
To know I cannot stay
But you, fain to follow
Where time can melt away

The minutes and the hours
Like you have never seen
A far different world
Where you have never been

Words carry on the water
And are picked up by the wind
For thousands of years
On and on they spin
So sleep now my sweet love
Let the waters sing your song
Long after my passing
Long after I’m gone.

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from Edge of the World, released March 20, 2008
Music and Lyrics by Maggie McKaig

Maggie McKaig--vocals, guitar
Luke Wilson--tenor guitar
Murray Campbell--oboe
Michael Zisman--electric bass guitar

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Maggie McKaig Nevada City, California

I'm a singer-songwriter, guitarist, accordionist, composer, poet, essayist, playwright. Since 2009 I've led World music quartet Beaucoup Chapeaux. With my partner of 45 years Luke Wilson we raised two sons, made seven albums, and grown veggie gardens and fruit trees on five acres of never ceded land once occupied by the Nisenan Tribe near Nevada City, CA.
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