The Secrets of the Old - Rossano Emili, Pietro Tonolo, Gigi Sella

I have old women’s secrets now\nThat had those of the young;\nMadge tells me what I dared not think\nWhen my blood was strong\nAnd what had drowned a lover once\nSounds like an old song\nThough Marg’ry is stricken dumb\nIf thrown in Madge’s way\nWe three make up a solitude;\nFor none alive today\nCan know the stories that we know\nOr say the things we say:\nHow such a man pleased women most\nOf all that are gone\nHow such a pair loved many years\nAnd such a pair but one\nStories of the bed of straw\nOr the bed of down