Candor Hall

What be these chains and bar walled frames

that hold my soul in captive gain

n'er reaching forth my freedom's hand

that moves me from these captive bands

From deep within my pain doth wage

from past regrets and days unweighed

of penalty now gone unchanged

for once be all for this penned cage

No change for me that none can see

for these gray walls and chains they be

reminders of what might have been

yet never more avail my skin

I call without to deaf bound ears

for none doth see nor doth one hear

the rantings of this one condemned

to walk alone these walls within

The clanging doors and echoed halls

doth each affirm my pitted falls

while like clothed guards tend every move

e'er eat or sleep that I must prove

For wake escapes my liberty

from these gray walls that capture me

by well versed judge my will is cast

declared the time my vent will last

No savior king avails my plot

within these walls be all my lot

for unchanged sins that I have brought

upon myself and others got

Can but one hear or canst one see

I have no chance for liberty

lest thou be moved from safety's care

when thou dost find that I am there