Nicholas Messenger - A Giant lyrics

A huge man standing in the doorway down into the earth - a very deep grave that they came on, making excavations for the family tomb a year or two ago behind the village church, The skeleton was nine feet tall. He loomed against the bed millennia; our own man: such barbarians as in our wages lurch to meet the centuries with whom there is no parley. How they gibber and gyrate back there down there ! And men like him lie face-down surely, in the rear-guard, fighting back the deeper murk. Thank heavens there are giants for the work.