Some Times of Night

                 words by Bob MacKenzie
                 music by Cilla Leigh

Some times of night the world seems far away
So like a life we dream to have some day,
While all around the mists obscure and hide
The world of man from man who would reside,
A spiral snail aloof among the dew
Of high rise grass and wait the reaper's shoe
That ends the day to leave behind crushed shell,
'Though where the snail has gone no one can tell.

And yet does not this snail become the mist
About a dream another world has kissed
With love and made by love to be its own
So that again the sower's seed is sown,
This time no reaper waiting to receive
Nor shell aspiral needed to deceive.

published: The Tower, 1970
                Creative Minds, 1972
                Janus & SCTH, 1973
                Pine's the Canadian Tree [anthology], 1974

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