Nancy Kerr 2013
"Written on a stirring spring morning in a city garden, remembering older summers and tunes played in wild places. A fiftieth birthday present for our dear friend Steve Hunt."
The Melrose Quartet: https://melrosequartet.bandcamp.com/track/fifty-verses
Chorus:
See how the season is starting something
The swift unearthing of a summer long
And thrifty voices do greet the dawning
With fifty verses of a longer song
On yonder alder the red wood growing
As he grows older does grow more grand
His bark and berries do soothe the sorrows
Of every woman and every man
The sea remembers on an eve in August
Our driftwood fire like a burning man
We blew the embers and in the morning
Had fishes flying into the pan
The stars are burning to light the evening
And a clifftop morning will breeze along
Just fifty turnings in a longer living
Just fifty verses of a longer song