In Continuum.

Winter Birds

It's the widow now that owns that angry plow,
The spartan mule and the crippled cow. 
The fallow field that will yield no more,
As the fox lay sleeping beneath her kitchen floor

The stream can't contain such the withering rain,
And from the pasture the fence it is leaning away
The clouds crack and growl, like some great cat on the prowl
Crying out, "I am, I am" over and over again

The days grow short as the nights grow long
The kettle sings its tortured song
As many petalled kiss I place upon her brow,
Oh, my lady, lady I am loving you now

The winter birds have come back again,
Here the sprightly Chickadee, gone now is the willow wren
In passing greet each other as if old, old friends
And to the voiceless trees, it is their own they will lend

The days grow short as the nights grow long
The kettle sings its tortured song
As many petalled kiss I place upon her brow,
Oh, my lady, lady I am loving you now

And though all these things will change,
The memories will remain as green to gold, and gold to brown
The leaves will fall to feed the ground
And in their falling, make no sound

Oh my lady,
Lady I am loving you now

I've gathered all my money and I'm goin' to town,
To buy my lady a long and flowing gown
'Cause come tomorrow morning, we're off to the county fair
I'll find a yellow flower and I will lace it in her hair