Sunset From a Train                   Sung by Allie McNay & Dan McNay
Lyrics by Richard Watson Glider
Music by Dan McNay
(About Richard taking their first baby to be buried)

But then the sunset smiled
Smiled once and turned toward dark
Above the distant wavering lines of trees
that filed along the horizon’s edge
Like hooded monks that hark
Through evening air
The call to prayer
Smiled once and faded slow slow slow away
When like a changing dream the long cloud wedge
Brown gray that darkened, threatening dark

Then grew saffron underneath and ere I knew
The space between turned green blue
The whole illimitable western skyey shore
The tender human silent sunset smiled once more

Thee absent loved one did I think on now
Wondering if thy deep brow
In dreams of me were lifted to the skies
Where by our far sea home the sunlight dies
If thou didst stand alone
Watching the day pass slowly
slow, as here but closer
and more dear beyond the meadow
and the long familiar line of blackening pine
When to that second smile dear heart it was thine

Then grew saffron underneath and ere I knew
The space between turned green blue
The whole illimitable western skyey shore
The tender human silent sunset smiled once more