Noble Suit

(So easily I fell to this,
Tumbled down a rabbit hole.
Small white creature follows near,
Where it leads my queen will know.)

O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.
You who rule my very soul.
To thou my dreams each night depart.
O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.

Once I was a noble man
Whose virtue rose above the rest.
My banner strong against the wind
There was no king I could not best.

O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.
You who rule my very soul.
To thou my dreams each night depart.
O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.

My sword was fire, my shield was flame
My armour was ‘candescent blaze.
The elements themselves attest
The power of my ardour’d gaze.

O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.
You who rule my very soul.
To thou my dreams each night depart.
O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.

Yet here I lay, a broken man,
My fingers clasping only stone.
Where fire once raged eternally,
There’s only flesh; and skin; and bone.

O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.
You who rule my very soul.
To thou my dreams each night depart.
O Queen, O Queen,
O Queen of Hearts.