Rites of Spring

Snowflakes fall around me

Ever silent—growing deep

The darkness gathers closely

Sweet hibernation’s sleep

 

The winter enters swiftly

Summer a golden dream

Gone now all the creatures

That drank from the stream

 

Like death the whole world sleeping

Snowy blanket covers clean

While earth reclaims past lives’ debris

And awaits the rites of spring

 

(chorus)

The rites of spring are calling

Will you answer true

The rites of spring are calling

Calling for you

 

The sun returns to warm the earth

Sweet daybreak retakes her throne

The light grows ever longer

The strongest will raise the song

 

Awaken all the woodlands

Forest glade crowning green

Assemble all ye creatures

Partake the rites of spring

 

(2nd chorus)

The rites of spring are calling

Yes I will answer true

The rites of spring are calling

The world renewed

 

 

Thomas Hubbard (1982)

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