Oh, the merry world around me
Through the windows I spy juniper
At times, the beauty stuns me
And sets me towards the ground

When I was made to working
The room was still collapsing
And ye were but a baby
Lilac about thy crown

The work was always heavy
And friends they turned to rivals
There is no understanding
When no one is around
And the melody's repeating
In the rhythms of my efforts
And ye are but a baby
Lilac about thy crown

Oh, the tide is slowly turning
And the universe aligning
To a new and simplе finding
That I need not make a sound

Oh, but everything about mе
Would start itself to spoiling
And ye are but a baby
Lilac about thy crown

Oh, when the season greets me
I'll ring out like a hammer
No place will be unknowing
No word will be untrue

And the wind will turn in eastern
And I'm to journey over
The long forgotten places
To do what I must do

Oh, but soon into the future
The character's reversing
The children are rehearsing
And dancing all around
And my weariness is gathering
My legs too weak for roaming
And ye are but a baby
Lilac about thy crown

My love is like a sunny brook
That shines out through the woodland
Impossible in beauty
Unlikely to be found

Yet she must go away me
Her fortune, it is calling
And she, no more a baby
Lilac about the ground