Spring

The finest day of spring

Petals dance on sudden gales

Counting everyone

Before the sinking sun

Fly, fly little wings

Like love that never fails

     Shadows begin to wake

     To a chorus that is the night

     Crickets fiddle, slow

     Warblers whistle, low

     Shine, shine velvet moon

     Till last you fade from sight

          Hear the sea in song

          Where the swallows play and die

          Starlight in the haze

          Flicker fireflies, ablaze

          Stay, stay gentle dream

          Beneath the candles in the sky