The Wind in the Trees

One of my favorite verses in Leonard Cohen's recent album, “Old Ideas,” is in his “Lullaby” and goes as follows:

      Sleep baby sleep

There's a morning to come

The wind in the trees

They're talking in tongues

That reminds me of a line in Isaiah that Old Betty Stocks once sent me just at the right time:

For you shall go out with joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees shall clap their hands. - Isaiah 55:12

I think that the words surrounding that passage in Isaiah are saying the same things that Cohen is saying, and I am saying, during this hallowed, old-yet-renewed, time of our lives.

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