Sarah's Herbarium

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
The pages breathe a scent of sun and time.
Dust motes dance in the window's slant of light.
Brittle leaves, a fragile spine, bound in worn leather.
Here is yarrow, pressed flat, its tiny flowers like forgotten snow against the paper.
And comfrey, the knitter of bones, still holding the memory of its rough-furred green.
Your hand, Sarah, laid them here.
A quiet prayer between the sheets.
To hold a piece of summer against the long, howling winter.
A promise made in 1653.

[Chorus]
This is more than a book of the dead.
This is a ledger of fevers broken in the night,
of wounds mended by the firelight, of small breaths eased in the dark.
This is Sarah's Herbarium.
A garden under glass.
A whispered pharmacopoeia for a world made new and hard.

[Verse 2]
I trace the ink, a faded, patient brown.
*For the ague, this root, ground down.*
*For the birthing bed, this leaf, steeped slow.*
Mint for the turning gut, plantain for the bee's sharp sting.
The small, essential miracles a woman brings to a house in the wilderness.
They didn't write down the nights you watched,
the tinctures measured by the drop, the cool cloths soaked and folded.
They left just this... this ghost of green.
This quiet map of what could heal.

[Chorus]
This is more than a book of the dead.
This is a ledger of fevers broken in the night,
of wounds mended by the firelight, of small breaths eased in the dark.
This is Sarah's Herbarium.
A garden under glass.
A whispered pharmacopoeia for a world made new and hard.

[Bridge]
The histories speak of the men who built the walls,
who signed the deeds, who answered freedom's calls.
But in the shadow of the meeting house, another strength was grown.
In the tended ground, from seeds you'd carefully sewn.
Your knowledge, a root, holding everything in place.
Your name, a whisper. Your work, a saving grace.
Until your own breath faded in 1729.

[Outro]
A scent of dust and chamomile.
A life's work, still and real.
Sarah Goodnow.
I close the page.
And somehow, you still heal.