Exquisite garden-themed eponymous track from the first of only two albums made in 1970 by the English folk band that immediately split up before reforming until 1973. Influenced by Fairport Convention, and surely Nick Drake, this song, written by Tobias "Bias" Boshell, is laced with 12-string guitar, harpsichord, and gorgeous vocal harmonies led by Celia Humphris. It takes us to a very different, dream-like place in which beauty comes hand in hand with melancholy. It was also later covered by All About Eve and Françoise Hardy.
Jane Delawney had her dreams
That she never did discover
For the flow that feeds the stream
Is the life blood of her lover
Is the life blood of her lover
And the purifying beam
Of the sun will shine here never
While the spirit of her dream
In the garden lives forever
Lives forever now …
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