Terry Taylor - The Afternoon lyrics

How she loved the dawn's golden colors brushed on the tree-arched vestibule Alone, she'd go out dancin' 'cross the quilt of morning dew Had a soul for risin' early and a heart for leavin' soon Oh how she loved the morning so God took her in the afternoon Her prayers spilled over earth and water kissed the snow fields and climbed the hills, cracked the mountains of Virginia, touched the hem of Jesus' will Yes sweet daybreak was a lover but he could not heal her wound Oh how she loved the morning so God took her in the afternoon Today the wind's a little colder The sun drifts 'cross a pallid sky and the land is full of shadows cast by dark clouds pa**ing by In my dreams I see her laughing In the mist she's still at play so each morning I go lookin' for the child who could not stay Now she fills the fallow green fields with a memory-laced perfume Oh how she loved the morning so God took her in the afternoon