Green and Grey

Early one morning, around the first of May
A man in black came walking, into a woodland glade
Following the sounds of pipes on this beautiful Spring
Day
High on the music that they made
But what beheld him within that place?
A look of recognition fell across his face
«Lucifer, oh Lucifer, why do you appear to me?
For I am a man of God, a priest
I’m no devil I’m Father to the land
I have lived here since the Earth began
Neither black nor white
Priest hear what I say
I’m green and grey
The priest said, «Lucifer, Lucifer you lie so well
I will pray unto my God, go back to the fires of Hell!
You fell from Heaven, and you fell from Grace
You want dominion over this place.»
The Piper smiled, and to the priest he said
«I was Lord of Animals, the Wild Hunt I led
Until your God came here and with his jealous hand
It was he who wanted dominion over this land
The priest said, «All evil comes from your hand.»
The Piper said, «If evil is, it lies in the hearts of
Man.»
«But you lead us, oh you tempt us, to rape, to steal
To kill!»
The Piper said, «Whatever happened to free will?»
Then the Grove lay empty, the priest told no one
The blossom lay upon the thorn, the Piper’s tune was
Done
And in the sunlit forest, the animals they bowed
As the Piper lay his Goddess down