To Althea from Prison (Manor Studio Version) (feat. David Rea)

When love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates
And my divine Althaea brings
To whisper at my grates
When I lie tangled in her hair
And fettered with her eye
The birds that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty

When flowing cups run swiftly round
With overlaying Thames
Our careless heads with roses crowned
Our hearts with loyal flames
When thirsty grief in wine we steep
When healths and draughts go free
Fishes that dimple in the deep
Know no such liberty

When linnet-like, confined
I with shriller note shall sing
The mercy, sweetness, majesty
And glories of my king
When I shall rejoice aloud how good
He is, and how great should be
The enlarged winds that curl the flood
Know no such liberty

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage
Minds innocent and quiet
Take that for a hermitage
And if I have freedom in my love
And in my soul I'm free
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty