Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat) - T. Rex

Catblack the wizard’s hat

Spun in lore from Dagamoor

The skull of jade

Was pearl inlaid

The silks, skin spun, repelled the Sun

A tusk of boar with dwarfish awe

Sobs on the door where stood before

A mountain man with sky-blue teeth

Upon his head a python’s wreath

A deer he slew in the dawning’s dew

Her heart was a dagger for a murderer’s brew.

A toad of jet on a sill cast in brass

Portrayed for his sight mysteries of the past

A yellow orphan dancer rich in Nature’s costly gold

Wept for the jailer of time to bless her old

But his kiss he held and shadowed for the spell of nights are strong

And spiralled like a whirlwind in the childhood of a song

Catblack the wizard’s back

Daubed in doom in his tounge tombed room

We of the wind must rejoice and speak

And kiss all our starbrowed brothers on the cheek.