[ILSE]   And all shall fade   The flowers of spring   The world and all the sorrow   At the heart of everything      But still it stays   The butterfly sings   And opens purple summer   With a flutter of its wings      [ALL]   The earth will wave with corn   The gray-fly choir will mourn   And mares will neigh   With stallions that they mate   Foals they've borne   And all shall know the wonder   Of purple summer      And yet, I wait   The swallow brings   A song to hard to follow   That no one else can sing      The fences sway   The porches swing   The clouds begin to thunder   Crickets wander, murmuring      The earth will wave with corn   The gray-fly choir will mourn   And mares will neigh   With stallions that they mate   Foals they've borne      And all shall know the wonder   I will sing the song of purple summer      And all shall know the wonder   I will sing the song of purple summer      All shall know the wonder of purple summer