Desert Chorus

Lyrics

Is not their desert the garden of the Lord? Is not their desert the garden of the Lord? Rain falls on the earth where no man is to satisfy the desolate waste ground To raise a grass blade for the green forest And appease the scorpion that suffers thirst Rain falls, and not lightly, on the bituminous land Obliterating landmarks, it vanishes between the particles of rock And runs down ancient aquifers lined with the casts of ferns The hunters shall go hungry tonight One will rеst inside his shelter whilе the other waits Eyes wide open, though the stars and moon are gone And the sky is nothing but cloud pouring out rain And the Earth is contracted by no human speech As if it had turned itself away from the world To leap like a fountain in the mind of God, God, God Leap like a fountain in the mind of God For a little while, perhaps a few years The rose of Persia, yellow with a red blotch at the base Which the people of Iran strip from their cornfields and use as fuel Will bring its beauty there Will bring its beauty here