Subtle Loveliness of Night Lyrics

Winter and spring, they softly fade,
Under the brightening dawn,
Summer comes but cannot stay,
For the road ahead is long.
The Sun will come again in time,
To light the world and warm the snow,
The ivy will begin to climb,
The flowers will begin to grow.

Winter blankets all the land,
The moon does shed its brilliant light,
Its beauty we don't understand,
The subtle loveliness of night.
On the wane, the moon has set,
The sun shall rise again anew,
The frost we shall all soon forget,
Instead we greet the springtime dew.

And so the cycle comes to end,
For years are simple, passing fast,
And soon it will complete again,
As it has done for ages past.
Winter blankets all the land,
The moon does shed its brilliant light,
Its beauty we don't understand,
The subtle loveliness of night.