Songbird Stay
O key ingredient of the harmony
Of Spring, dear Songbird stay, we beg you, stay!
The dead must feel an equal agony
To hear you not, nor see the light of day
Should silence fall within the woodland dells
We’d mourn as if the Sun had left the sky
Or all the flowers lost their honey smells
As from their petals drained the coloured dye
We love those trills that irrigate the mind
With water from a laughing, babbling stream
Your calls explore a secret sylvan space
And by the echoes somehow is defined
Within our human thought a painted scene
Of all that’s filled with natural, verdant grace
Sweet Songbird stay and ever, ever sing for once you’re gone it never could be Spring
We’ll take whatever course for you is best
Ensure the fields from poisons are kept free
Keep dogs instead of cats, to spare your nest
And anywhere you need it plant a tree
We’ll plant such bowery covert as you need
We’ll plant so you can shelter, roost and call
We’ll plant the plants that give you food to feed
We’ll plant them if we value Spring at all
We love each sound you sing, o darling bird
All notes that issue from your quavering throat
Each lilting warble, chirrup, cheep and coo
By which the silent sleeping air is stirred
These sounds now through my open window float
To broach the Gates of Dawn, and bring the New!
Sweet Songbird stay and ever, ever sing for once you’re gone it never could be Spring
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