Shadow Passing by W.S. Merwin Lyrics

Suddenly in bright sunlight small clouds
and on a map I remember
we were growing toward us
like lights in the distance

it was a country of mines
and faces like sawed bones
sitting outside their black doorways
staring into tunnels in the daylight

the rivers and the standing
water were full
of the dreams of presidents
of coal companies

and from the churches
on the flayed slopes
rose hymns of resurrection
then the sunlight came back