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The Dreams of Istanbul

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 What night is this of blood and stars
But sleep it cannot bring
The night that bids its phoenix home
But will not heal its wings,

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 What songs are these that pull me now
Like ships across the sea
And call out to the restless child
With words of mystery

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 But sullen still the childish heart
To turn its eyes away
And frozen like the frost that grips
And leads the sun astray

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Yet sweeter thoughts than these are here
But sweeter thoughts soon flee
Across my heart on to to the place
They always longed to be

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 So moon pour down your silver thread
And let your magic fall
And bring to me the warmth I crave
To love me all the more

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 The Liverbird exotic breed
Her memories turn to times
Of nights she spread her mighty wings
Beneath our Anfield skies

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 For Paris sweet in spring’s first steps
And Rome where Kings once ruled
Dortmund Wembley share with all
The dreams of Istanbul.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-dreams-of-istanbul/