The Lilac And The Apple-Kate Wolf

[ti:The Lilac & The Apple] [ar:Kate Wolf] [al:Weaver Of Visions - The Kate Wolf Anthology] [offset:0] [00:00.56]A Lilac bush and an Apple tree [00:04.26]Were standing in the woods [00:08.91]Out on the hill above the town, [00:12.46]Where once a farmhouse stood. [00:17.96]In the winter the leaves are bare [00:21.86]And no one sees the signs [00:26.43]Of a house that stood and a garden that grew [00:30.76]And life in another time. [00:36.14]One Spring when the buds came bursting forth [00:40.55]And grass grew on the land, [00:44.91]The Lilac spoke to the Apple tree [00:49.40]As only an old friend can. [00:55.06]Do you think, said the Lilac, this might be the year [00:59.18]When someone will build here once more? [01:04.06]Here by the cellar, still open and deep, [01:08.23]There's room for new walls and a floor. [01:14.44]Oh, no, said the Apple, there are so few [01:18.89]Who come here on the mountain this way [01:23.35]And when they do, they don't often see [01:27.51]Why we're growing here, so far away. [01:33.99]A long time ago we were planted by hands [01:38.09]That worked in the mines and the mills [01:42.18]When the country was young and the people who came [01:46.87]Built their homes in the hills. [01:52.12]But now there are cities, the roads have come [01:56.41]And no one lives here today [02:00.76]And the only signs of the farms in the hills [02:06.73]Are the things not carried away [02:12.96]Broken dishes, piles of boards, [02:18.07]A tin plate, an old leather shoe. [02:23.19]And an Apple tree still bending down [02:30.75]And a Lilac where a garden once grew. [02:34.61]The Lilac & The Apple - Kate Wolf [02:36.60]