I will bring you time to dwell.
I will bring you flowers swell.

This of men that I met
One was there to tell me that
All he had, where he was,
Still in nothing we would trust.
Said he'd been all around
Paying for his journey sound.
Would we know where to go
When we'd feel like homeward bound?
And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.

On for what is real.
Two for man and wife.
Three for who we are.
Four for reasons all.
Five for love of love.
Six for what we know.
Seven for where we grow.
Eight for what we made.
Nine for what was good.
Ten for what was possible.
Eleven for what was true.
And twelve for the time that's due.
And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.

This of time in time to pass
Let me joyful raise a glass.
Bearing in on every deed
Man has done in joy and need.
One for joy and one for grief.
One for pain and sweet relief.
This of toasts and time he said
Drink it up with no regret;
And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.

This of songs with morals all,
Songs you've known by heart from small,
Sound and words to form us in
Rights and doubts to make one win.
Let us pass them on again
Let us join on the refrain,
Sing it clear and right out loudly,
Every tongue should sing it proudly.
And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.

This of what our parents said
May by gentle hands be led
Out of love and quarrels grey
    Sure at all one day we'll say,
`Where I came, I restrain,
Where I'm grown love was sown.'
So that when we pass away
God will find us urban clay.
 And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.

This of love that came to last
This of love that faded fast.
Let us all remember that
Love was made for each man's hat.
High in every life
Love will end the strife.
And of love we'll sing again
As we're heading the refrain.
And he said:
    I will bring you time to dwell.
    I will bring you flowers swell.