The Song of Purple Summer

And all shall fade

The flowers of spring

The world and all the sorrow

At the heart of everything

But still it stays

The butterfly sings

And opens purple summer

With the flutter of its wings

The earth will wave with corn

The gray-fly choir will mourn

And mares will neigh

With stallions that they mate

Foals they've borne

And all shall know the wonder

Of purple summer

And yet I wait

The swallow brings

A song too hard to follow

That no one else can sing

The fences sway

The porches swing

The clouds begin to thunder

Crickets wander, murmuring

The earth will wave with corn

The gray-fly choir will mourn

And mares will neigh

With stallions that they mate

Foals they've borne

And all shall know the wonder

I will sing the song of purple summer

All shall know the wonder

I will sing the song of purple summer

All shall know the wonder

Of purple summer