Their Song

The world was young and no bird sung
And no man wandered the land
And the only sound was the restless wind
And the waves that washed on the sand
And was there something moving
Like a great bird over the ground?
Was it shining bright in the sunlight
As it silently came down?

And did they run, did they run
In the strange hot sun
On the lonely edge of the sea?
Did they stand and look at this lonely world
And know just what it might be?
Did they fly
Back into the sky?

Black as the light of a starless night
Was the cloud that covered the sky
And down from the hill the night was still
Where the summer grasses were high
And it shone like a light, so the farmer said
And it never made a sound
And it came in over the valley
And it landed there on the ground

Do they come, do they come
When it seems no one
Is ever likely to know?
On the darkened side of some lonely road
Do they stand there watching us go?
Do they fly
Back into the sky?