I came to live in Buxton
A liaison I did seek
‘Mong hills, where walkers like to walk:
The pleasant Higher Peak
I came up here to conquer
Kill the coward in my shoes
From deeper Dales of Derbyshire
I’d walked out on my muse!
I came to find my true love
Who I’d lost a life ago
I missed her hair of sunlit gold
Bound up in Beltane bow
I came because she called me
‘Cross the lonely years we’d lost
‘Cause love had kept us crazy still
We cared not what it cost
I came to stay in Buxton
When the stars above aligned
For my rose of rhyme and romance
The poet in me pined!
I came to live in Buxton
To the town that time forgot
But by beauty breathed on Buxton
She conjured Camelot!