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Featured Song

  • Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore
    Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door (note 1)
    See the sun sparkle in the reeds; silver beads pass into the sea

    She comes from a town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter
    She's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water
    And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her
    Let it flow, greatly flow, wide and clear

    Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field
    Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal (note 2)
    Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring; black dirt live again

    The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing
    As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
    That the work of his day measures more than the planting and growing
    Let it grow, let it grow, greatly yield (note 3)

    What shall we say, shall we call it by a name
    As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
    Water bright as the sky from which it came
    And the name is on the earth that takes it in
    We will not speak but stand inside the rain
    And listen to the thunder shout
    I am, I am, I am, I am

    So it goes, we make what we made since the world began
    Nothing more, the love of the women, work of men
    Seasons round, creatures great and small, up and down, as we rise and fall