Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Cyprus Avenue
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
“There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine —
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade.”
— John Keats, Lamia
"Lamia", Pt. II, l. 229
Poems (1820)
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