Portrait for a Queen
Dan Jordan
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I woke up one late autumn morn To a knocking at my door And a man dressed in importance Well he handed me a scroll The writing was of elegance The paper smooth and fine As I read it over In my mind It read, dear sir Your work is world renown I wish for you to paint for me A veil for this land As I read to the bottom In the final line she wrote My people they wouldn't Understand So I packed my paints and grabbed my hat And I was on my way Thoughts were running through my head What am I to say? The palace was the grandest place That I had ever seen As I went to paint A portrait for the Queen I was lead into the palace hall Where my lady sat I lowered my eyes to the floor As I took off my soaked hat Not a word was spoken Just a whisper of a sigh As I glanced up To meet her eye My Queen was dressed in robes of red And the glitter of gold was immense But instead of renowned beauty I saw a fading smile Held up by a frail and heavy heart As I placed brush to canvas I could not steady my hand And as the hours fleeted I began to understand Every brushstroke revealed a sorrow That I could not disguise No matter how hard I tried In her face I could paint All her hopes and fears And in her eyes a fire, long since tamed By her tears There is nothing so bitter Than to now accept her fate As by the morning would Be too late My Queen was dressed in robes of red And the glitter of gold was immense But instead of renowned beauty I saw a fading smile Held up by a frail and heavy heart My Queen was dressed in robes of red And the glitter of gold was immense But instead of renowned beauty I saw a fading smile Held up by a frail and heavy heart Now there will come a time So I knew what I had to do For the sake of a land where Majesty once did rule When they come to her in desperate need For wisdom and a prayer But my lady, she No longer will be there Though she will be missed But no more must she wait On the dying and the desperate cries For a kind ear to elate Instead there is talk Of a painting that is hung To lift this burden long after We are gone My Queen was dressed in robes of red And the glitter of gold was immense But instead of renowned beauty I saw a fading smile Held up by a frail and heavy heart
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