Silence and sleep like fields of amaranth lie | |
Very old are the woods | |
And the buds that break out of the briers boughs | |
When March winds wake | |
So old with their beauty are | |
Oh no man knows through what wild centuries | |
Roves back the rose | |
Very old are the brooks | |
And the rills that rise | |
Where snow sleeps cold beneath the azure skies | |
Sing such a history of come and gone | |
We wake and whisper a while | |
But the day gone by | |
Very old are we men | |
Our dreams are tales told in dim Eden | |
By Eve's nightingales. |