Lyrics:

Vespers bell tolls day's departure
Resounding its plaintive knell
The cowherd drives his cattle homewards
As sunlight bids a fading farewell
Warm afterglow, how discreetly you flow
Casting twilight's halo, on the dimming day
Calm afterglow, bathe each hill and hedgerow
In a scarlet shadow, slipping slowly grey
Shirehorse ploughs one final furrow
Gaping nostrils snorting steam
The yearling bows her head in slumber
While Sandman spurs a world to dream
Warm afterglow, how discreetly you flow
Casting twilight's halo, on the dimming day
Calm afterglow, bathe each hill and hedgerow
In a scarlet shadow, slipping slowly grey
Advent of night
Soothing sight
Seaman's delight
Bustling woodland slows to stillness
Quiet save for the blackbird's cry
A crimson aura braids the skyline
Urging languid day to die

Warm afterglow, how discreetly you flow
Casting twilight's halo, on the dimming day
Calm afterglow, bathe each hill and hedgerow
In a scarlet shadow, slipping slowly grey