THE EVENING STILL HAS LIGHT
The evening still has light…
Still has light…
I followed wool-white giants through the blue
Their lantern bells came breathing into view
They crossed the hills like ships of silver air
And all that quiet stayed beside me there
The twilight touched the silver in my hair
Like heaven had been saving up this prayer
No hurried voice, no proving left to do
The evening opened warm and true
Every mile I thought was gone
Was waiting here to bloom
The evening, the evening still has light
The hills still sing my name tonight
What I could not carry
The quiet carried for me
Oh, the evening, the evening still has light
My weathered years are lanterns in the sky
In these wool-white fields of wonder
The evening still has light
Light… light…
It still has light…
Light… light…
And so do I…
By crystal barns and amber window fire
The oldest songs were lifting even higher
Great sheep lay down like moonlit woven stone
And made the whole wide meadow feel like home
I touched a fleece as soft as falling snow
It held the kind of peace I used to know
And all the rooms I thought had faded dim
Were filling up with gold again
When the bells moved through the dusk
The dusk moved through me too
The evening, the evening still has light
The hills still sing my name tonight
What I could not carry
The quiet carried for me
Oh, the evening, the evening still has light
My weathered years are lanterns in the sky
In these wool-white fields of wonder
The evening still has light
If the mirror shows the winter
Let the window show the dawn
There is music in the slower way
The heart keeps traveling on
When I thought the best was over
Something brighter called me by name
Not behind me
Not beyond me
Right here in the evening glow
The evening, the evening still has light
The hills still sing our names tonight
What we could not carry
The quiet carried for us
Oh, the evening, the evening still has light
Our weathered years are lanterns in the sky
In these wool-white fields of wonder
The evening still has light
Still has light…
And so do I…
