2006
A Summer Night
Composed by 
Stephen Paulus
Stephen Paulus Text by 
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser A Heartland Portrait Song Collection
"A Summer Night" is the fifth song of Stephen Paulus' song cycle A Heartland Portrait: Five Songs for Baritone and Piano, which sets the poetry of Ted Kooser.
The sheet music is self-published and available through the composer's website.
Text
A Summer Night
by Ted Kooser
At the end of the street
a porch light is burning,
showing the way.
How simple, how perfect it seems:
How simple. how perfect it seems:
the darkness the white house like a passage
through summer and into a snowfield.
Night after night,
the lamp comes on,
comes on at dusk,
the end of the street
stands open and white,
an old woman sits there
tending the lonely gate.
How simple, how perfect it seems.
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