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Words by Vachel Lindsay
Music by M Ryan Taylor
This was originally written as the finale to a song cycle that I wrote for a good friend of mine in college. It has been extracted from that set and replaced with a solo version. This is the original version. The text, by Vachel Lindsay (one of America’s great poets), celebrates the simple things that we often take for granted and I think would be wonderfully appropriate for a Thanksgiving service or concert. It might even do well for a concert of Americana or Patriotica.
The Words:
The dew, the rain and moonlight
All prove our Father’s mind.
The dew, the rain and moonlight
Descend to bless mankind.
Come, let us see that all men
Have land to catch the rain,
Have grass to snare the spheres of dew,
And fields spread for the grain.
Yea, we would give to each poor man
Ripe wheat and poppies red, –
A peaceful place at evening
With the stars just overhead:
A sod spread to the sun,
A place of toil by daytime,
Of dreams when toil is done.
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