Maple Shade

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Would you come away with me
For now and ever after
To live and love in mystery
To offer tears and laughter
We are of the same cloth made
Survivors of the winter
Meet me in the maple shade
The first day of the summer

All the love our labours show
There is no concealing
The pleasure that our bodies know
When we return to feeling
To run barefoot on steaming clay
When baptismal rain has fallen
And sleep in late on Saturday
A heavy quilt for heaven

Our losses are beyond belief
And still we find a meaning
In the joy and out the grief
And honey for the keening
We trust the sun will yet return
And ask that dark December
Loan a lamp to light and burn
Help us to remember

Let us steal sweet time back from
The sentry of the hours
Too many lost without a name
We mark the path with flowers
Flowers for all time at once
A bloom for every colour
Lift the eyes and join the hands
And find the way together

Would you come away with me
For now and ever after
To live and love in mystery
To offer tears and laughter
We are of the same cloth made
Survivors of the winter
Meet me in the maple shade
The first day of the summer

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