Sara Teasdale - In a Garden lyrics

The world is resting without sound or motion,   Behind the apple tree the sun goes down Painting with fire the spires and the windows   In the elm-shaded town. Beyond the calm Connecticut the hills lie   Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom, The swallows weave in flight across the zenith   On an aerial loom. Into the garden peace comes back with twilight,   Peace that since noon had left the purple phlox, The heavy-headed asters, the late roses   And swaying hollyhocks. For at high-noon I heard from this same garden   The far-off murmur as when many come; Up from the village surged the blind and beating   Red music of a drum; And the hysterical sharp fife that shattered   The brittle autumn air, While they came, the young men marching   Past the village square. . . . Across the calm Connecticut the hills change   To violet, the veils of dusk are deep— Earth takes her children's many sorrows calmly   And stills herself to sleep.