Woodland Hymn-Samuel Lockridge

[ti:Woodland Hymn] [ar:Samuel Lockridge] [al:When I Rise] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Woodland Hymn - Samuel Lockridge [00:00.33]Though stormy skies shook the trees [00:09.98] [00:12.03]Of clinging leaves I sat beneath [00:20.37] [00:21.96]Oh who has taught the spider's legs to spin [00:29.84] [00:31.37]Even then [00:33.91] [00:35.95]Even then [00:39.14] [00:41.96]Such thin and fine gossamer thread [00:50.54] [00:51.63]Now formed a halo above my head [00:57.90] [01:00.19]Before the night was done I did intend [01:06.95] [01:08.63]My heart to mend my heart to mend [01:18.24] [01:19.84]I saw a red and white mare [01:28.02] [01:29.43]With eyes as blue as the aegean [01:36.94] [01:38.44]She told me hands and lips are for praying [01:45.87] [01:47.29]So sing with me sing with me [01:55.28] [01:56.68]She said if you must weep my dear [02:04.61] [02:06.02]Weep not for darkness weep not for fear [02:13.12] [02:15.14]All things that rise and fall shall pass away [02:22.58] [02:23.97]At break of day [02:27.20] [02:28.36]At break of day [02:31.08] [03:28.98]A wolf cub pawed at my cheek [03:35.52] [03:37.53]And bade me nestle down and go to sleep [03:43.85] [03:46.04]The howls you hear at night that raise your hairs [03:52.45] [03:54.66]Are only prayers only prayers [04:02.17] [04:03.12]So long I laid beneath those limbs [04:09.91] [04:11.71]And listened to the woodland hymns [04:18.09] [04:20.30]'Til pale dawn's light first whispered through the wood [04:26.52] [04:28.89]And I understood [04:31.47] [04:33.16]I understood [04:36.78] [04:43.27]Silent one [04:44.89] [04:47.38]Behind my eyes breath of life [04:51.18] [04:51.83]Unseen gaze peering out from every face [05:01.68] [05:07.67]No living thing how wild or tame [05:14.10] [05:16.14]Alone can bear the darkness and the rain [05:22.63] [05:24.65]The one who taught them each their harmony to sing [05:31.16] [05:34.20]Rise up in me rise up in me like steam [05:40.52] [05:42.75]Rise up in me rise up in me like steam