The poem describes the coming of summer and all the signs of new life and growth it brings. It mentions flowers blooming in spring, butterflies singing as they open summer, corn waving in fields, flies chorusing and horses mating and bearing foals. Throughout it promises that all will know the wonder of the coming purple summer as it is sung about.
The poem describes the coming of summer and all the signs of new life and growth it brings. It mentions flowers blooming in spring, butterflies singing as they open summer, corn waving in fields, flies chorusing and horses mating and bearing foals. Throughout it promises that all will know the wonder of the coming purple summer as it is sung about.
The poem describes the coming of summer and all the signs of new life and growth it brings. It mentions flowers blooming in spring, butterflies singing as they open summer, corn waving in fields, flies chorusing and horses mating and bearing foals. Throughout it promises that all will know the wonder of the coming purple summer as it is sung about.
The poem describes the coming of summer and all the signs of new life and growth it brings. It mentions flowers blooming in spring, butterflies singing as they open summer, corn waving in fields, flies chorusing and horses mating and bearing foals. Throughout it promises that all will know the wonder of the coming purple summer as it is sung about.
The flowers of spring The world and all the sorrow At the heart of everything But still it stays The butterfly sings And opens purple summer With the flutter of its wings
The earth will wave with corn
The gray-fly choir will mourn And mares will neigh with Stallions that they mate, foals they’ve borne And all shall know the wonder of purple summer
And yet I wait
The swallow brings A song too hard to follow That no one else can sing The fences sway The porches swing The clouds begin to thunder Crickets wander, murmuring
The earth will wave with corn
The gray-fly choir will mourn And mares will neigh with Stallions that they mate, foals they’ve borne And all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer All shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer All shall know the wonder of purple summer