Lily's Eyes - Philip Quast (The Secret Garden, 2001)

Archie.

Archie.

Archie.

You must make a decision about Mary.

Last night, she stole into Colin's room and caused such a disturbance, I had to sedate the boy to get him to sleep.

Any more visits like this, we'll have to put him in hospital.

We will not put him in a hospital, Lily would never forgive me.

Then you will send Mary away.

Because she undoes everything we have tried to do.

I can't send her away, she has no one in the world but me.

Can't you keep her outside?

She likes the gardens, I believe.

Then you take her to the gardens.

You take on the responsibility of supervising her full time.

She's a strong-willed girl, Archie, and you're the only one she will obey.

Oh, what are you doing?

I'm leaving Neverland, returning to Paris.

I am useless here.

I can't do anything for Colin.

And last night I walked through the maze to Lily's garden and saw Mary standing there.

Mary standing right there in Lily's garden.

I turned away, I couldn't watch.

I was afraid.

Strangely quiet, I fear the storm simply waits to strike again.

Something scares me to think of her.

I think of her.

Strangely this Mary, she wanders in where a man may fear to go.

Something scares me to think of her.

I think of her.

From death she casts a spell, tonight we hear her sighs, an old girl has come who has her eyes.

She has her eyes, the girl has Lily's hazel eyes, those eyes that saw him happy long ago.

Those eyes that gave him life and hope he'd never known, how can he see this girl and miss those eyes?

She has her eyes, the girl has Lily's hazel eyes, those eyes that closed and left me all alone.

Those eyes I feel will never ever let me go, how can I see this girl who has her eyes?

Her eyes, in Lily's eyes, that castle, this house seemed to be.

And I dreamed last night between them, my lady fair was she.

She has her eyes, she has my Lily's hazel eyes, those eyes that loved my brother, never me.

Those eyes that never saw me, never knew I long to hold her close, to live at last in these eyes.

You imagine me a lover, I long for the day she turns and sees me standing there.

For God, I'd let her stay.

She has her eyes, she has my Lily's hazel eyes, those eyes that loved my brother, never me. Those eyes that closed and left me all alone.

How can I now forget that wise old dream? In love I'd let her fall in Lily's eyes. In Lily's eyes. Her eyes.