Flowers - @Peace

Oh the summertime is coming, and the leaves are sweet returning

But those flowers of peace, it’s for them I’m really yearning

Will they bloom, ever bloom?

Will they bloom in the springtime?

Oh you flowers of peace

When the world should be ringtime (?)

Will ye bloom, ever bloom?

I built my love a bower by a clear, crystal river

But the thing her heart desires is a thing I cannot give her

Oh providence smiled impassive, while I fell on bended knee

Said, the lives of you empires are no more than swarms of bees

If you and I would see those flowers, get up and rouse your neighbors

When first the seed I’d planted, it takes long and careful labor

If you and I would see those flowers, go out and till the fertile soil

It will take more than prayers, it takes hard and sweaty toil