The Hunter's Star Lyrics - Shearwater

The hunter's star 

Burns brighter than all 

Of the suns of the firmament 

As through the sky he raged 

With his hook and blade 

And the world unmade 

As forests bow 

And blacken the air 

As the canopies burn away 

And the arc-lights fade 

And no gull remains 

To repeat its call 

Only now would you long 

For the ancient boughs 

The moon overlapping 

The long white clouds 

And the home life of a love 

Who will never return again? 

No child at all would wake to the light 

Of a sun that is reddening 

Like a robin's breast 

And no lioness boards a last 

Great hull on the waves 

That close, that close